David Dawes wrote: > >> >What about updating the FreeType code shipped with Xfree86 to version > >> >2.1.7 before Xfree4.4.0 gets released (see bugzilla RFE below) ? > >> > >> The feature freeze was over 6 weeks ago. The integration phase is > >> over. > > > >I wasn't considering this as "feature", more as a way to get rid of the > >problems with PS Type1 fonts in the tree (and likely some other stuff > >was fixed, too) ... > > 25% of the FreeType changelog since 2.0 is for changes since 2.1.4. > For integration purposes, that counts as a "feature."
... OK... agreed.... ;-( > If there are specific isolated fixes that would address the Type1 > issues, they could certainly be considered. There is a simple fix for the FreeType Type1 parser which corrects the problem when someone has placed PostScript comments into Type1 fonts... maybe that's worth enougth for a backport to Xfree86 CVS... or not... > How does 2.1.4's handling of Type1 fonts compare with the Type1 > backend? Do you mean xc/lib/font/Type1/ vs xc/lib/font/FreeType/ ? In my opinion the xc/lib/font/Type1/ should be retired since it causes server crashes such as "Fatal server error: Beziers this big not yet supported" and seems to have huge problems with rasterisation at higher resolutions. At least for PS Type1 fonts the current code in xc/lib/font/FreeType/ is mature[1] enougth to let it handle all PS Type1 fonts (*.pfa, *.pfb). Unfortunately there are still the CID fonts where the FreeType backend and the FreeType library do not offer support for... but the question is - do we still need CID fonts when we have TTF/OTF font support ? [1]="mature" in this case means that it accepts and renders all PS Type1 fonts available in Solaris 2.8, Culmus Hebrew, all the MonoType and Adobe Type1 fonts I have and those generated via ttf2pt1 without problems. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 2426 901568 FAX +49 2426 901569 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
