Hi Werner,
I seem to recall that you don't have much access to Mac OS X; nonetheless, I
wonder if you have an idea what's the context of two curious comments in some
source code I came across with (it is the cairo bridge code in R, if you want to
know).
This concerns Mac OS X's shipping version of freetype - it has
two comments about broken index, and also swapped styles.
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/* some FreeType versions have broken index support,
fall back to index 0 */
if (!FT_New_Face(ft_library,
(const char *) file, index, &face) ||
(index && !FT_New_Face(ft_library,
(const char *) file, 0, &face))) {
FcFontSetDestroy (fs);
#ifdef __APPLE__
/* FreeType is broken on OS X in that face index
is often wrong (unfortunately even for Helvetica!)
- we try to find the best match through enumeration.
And italic and bold are swapped */
if (style == 2) style = 1; else if (style == 1) style = 2;
if (face->num_faces > 1 &&
(face->style_flags & 3) != style) {
FT_Face alt_face;
int i = 0;
while (i < face->num_faces)
if (!FT_New_Face(ft_library,
(const char *) file,
============================
The background is just that I will at some point attempt to rebuild that
bridge with up-to-date version of freetype, and wonder if it is important.
Hin-Tak
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