Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MK> An X11 client does not see a Type1 font directly. It just sees an X11 > MK> font, and that can be up to 2^16 glyphs large. XFree86 can recode a > MK> Type1 font in any encoding into an X11 font in many encodings, including > MK> CP1252 and ISO10646-1. > > Yes, except that the current code limits X11 fonts deried from Type 1 > and Speedo fonts to 256 codepoints. (The data structures would need > to be changed in order to efficiently deal with larger codepoint spaces.)
I didn't have sufficient context to understand, but that's what I meant to mean. I haven't studied XFree86's font guts closely... I'm more on the user end of things. Can the FreeType T1 backend handle more than 256 codepoints in a Type 1 font? 'james -- James A. Crippen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,-./-. Anchorage, Alaska, Lambda Unlimited: Recursion 'R' Us | |/ | USA, 61.20939N, -149.767W Y = \f.(\x.f(xx)) (\x.f(xx)) | |\ | Earth, Sol System, Y(F) = F(Y(F)) \_,-_/ Milky Way. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
