On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:58:07AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: >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...
If it's a problem people are running into, then it might be worth it. >> 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 Yeah, FatalError() from a font backend is bad. It ought to print a warning and return a relevant error code rather than killing the whole server. >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 ? I recently tracked down a problem report related to CID fonts, so I guess someone is using them. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
