RE: [ft-devel] Porting Free Type on 8 Bit platform!

[Turner, David]

In theory, FreeType should work on 16-bit platforms, but
this hasn't been officially verified for a very long time.

However, I don't know of any 8-bit platform that is capable
of dealing with, say, memory-mapped files or heap blocks
that are larger than, say, 64 Kb, and this ability is
required to support certain fonts which require very
large allocations.

I have great doubt that an 8-bit micro-controller would be
able to support TrueType fonts to the full extend of the
specification (how would you handle multi-megabytes CJK
fonts for example).

I'd love to be wrong though.

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)



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> Kiran Mahajan
> Envoyé : vendredi 23 septembre 2005 08:18
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> Objet : [ft-devel] Porting Free Type on 8 Bit platform!
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> Hi all,
> Many of you mite have worked on porting Freetype on Embedded 
> platforms.
> I want to know that, Is it possible to port freetype2 on 8 
> bit platform
> like 8 Bit microcontrollers based on 8051 core or 8 Bit Rabbit
> processors? If yes, which are the facts to do that? Also what will be
> the constrains?
> Any pointers?
> 
> Thanking in advance!
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> Thanks and Regards!!
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> Kirankumar S. Mahajan
> Project Engineer(Embedded Systems)
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> GIST group,
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