Keith Packard wrote:
> ...
> FreeType doesn't (yet) support compressed PCF fonts. I've since had a
> revelation that we should discard PCF font files and replace them with TTF
> files containing an embedded bitmap.
Very interesting idea!
> If anyone has experience writing TrueType font files, help would be
> greatly appreciated in building something that can create these new files.
The printing code in OpenOffice has C code to pull apart a TrueType
font and recompose a subset. It does not handle ebmedded bitmaps.
Ghostscript also has C code to parse TrueType fonts.
I also have a bit of perl that takes TrueType fonts apart so
I can inspect them.
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Brian Stell
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