Jeremias Maerki wrote: > So this is really the foundation to make Type 1 fonts > available on the fly without generating font metric XML files > by hand. Very cool.
Actually, FOray eliminated the intermediate font metric XML files several months ago, and parses the TTF, PFM, PFA, and PFB files on-the-fly. I'll try to add an AFM parser in the next few days, and then I think we'll have the best of all worlds -- you can hand-tune an AFM file if you want to, but otherwise, just use the files that ship with the font. We may have some performance/memory issues that result from this, but I think the code is set up to accommodate some configuration items after I start getting some feedback about what people want. BTW, I want to compliment the people that wrote the original font code. There was really a large amount of good and useful code in there. I spent several months refactoring it to make it cleaner and easier to use, but I came out *way* ahead of starting over again. My current theory about open-source development is that, because so many people work on it, it evolves into something that is a bit convoluted. Every once in a while, you need a refactoring cycle to clean it up (really to impose or reimpose a design after-the-fact). My current theory also includes the idea that nobody really wants to do that work, because it isn't very much fun, and because it is hard to see an immediate benefit. Anyway, my compliments to Tore and Jeremias and the many others who wrote the base code. Victor Mote
