Re: [ft-devel] need help on loading Glyph Index

[Werner LEMBERG]

> [...] I face a challenge trying to load glyph by using glyph index.
> When I load a CID font, Free Type will treat the input glyph index
> as a CID value.  The problem is that my glyph index is the index of
> a Charstring in a CFF file.

Hm.  In the real world, the glyph index in a CID is at no time used
directly.

> Is there any way I can directly load the glyph index as it is and
> without the CID to GID conversion?

No.

> I do hope if you can separate the FT_Load_Glyph into two parts: one
> can directly load glyph index as it is and the other load cid value.

Please give an example (i.e., a small self-compilable source code
example for command-line execution) together with a sample font which
demonstrates your needs.


    Werner