Brian Stell wrote:

>Keith Packard wrote:
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>>...
>>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.
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>Very interesting idea!
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>>If anyone has experience writing TrueType font files, help would be
>>greatly appreciated in building something that can create these new files.
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>The printing code in OpenOffice has C code to pull apart a TrueType 
>font and recompose a subset. It does not handle ebmedded bitmaps.
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>Ghostscript also has C code to parse TrueType fonts.
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>I also have a bit of perl that takes TrueType fonts apart so
>I can inspect them.
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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


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