Hi, I wish if this Werner's post is appropriate to continue the discussion of the font format to be supported by Fonty Python.
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:07:45 +0100 (CET) Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are these worth supporting? I don't think I have one on my entire >> Kubuntu system. What would they be called? "Postscript fonts"? > >Well, OpenType fonts (often with extension `.otf') are either based on >TrueType outlines or PostScript outlines (as CFF). Then, there are >pure CFFs, there are Type 42 fonts, etc, etc. Not a trivial topic. Yet I'm not sure the target application that Fonty Python manages the fonts for, but considering the fontconfig's limitation, I think the first group for FP would be the font files with Unicode interfaces and outline (not bitmap- only) fonts. So CFF OpenType would be the first candidate. # fontconfig insists as if it supports bitmap fonts like # bitmap-only TrueType, BDF, PCF etc, but I'm suspicious # if fontconfig can extract meaningful data from these # fonts, except of Roman fonts. I'm not sure if Type42 (an encapsuled conversion of TrueType font for PostScript language) is worthful. The handling of Type42 is similar to Type1 font, so it may easy to support after Type1 is supported. But I don't know any font package (or products) including an independent file in Type42 format. CID-keyed font files should be avoided at present. They should be used with other files to attach character encoding interface - they don't have simple Unicode interface. Regards, mpsuzuki _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
