Brian Stell wrote: >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. > > > Hi,
OpenOffice.org will fall flat with this kind of TrueType fonts. We assume TTFs to be printable and scalable. So it would be nice to get a pointer to these new fonts as soon as you have somthing ready to test with. By any means it's a cool idea ! best regards Christof _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
