Hi,
Applications that produce PDF files may need to perform TrueType font
subsetting, in which the unused glyphs and tables are discarded from a
font in order to save space. This is particularly important for CJK
fonts, as they are very large and a PDF document will typically only use
a small fraction of the glyphs in the font.
FreeType does not appear to provide support for font subsetting, which
involves creating a new font rather than loading an existing one. Is
there any interest in adding this functionality to FreeType?
The reason I ask is that we are implementing TrueType font subsetting in
Prince, our PDF formatter for printing web pages, and since we already
use FreeType for processing fonts we would be happy to contribute the
subsetting module we are developing for inclusion in FreeType.
Best regards,
Michael
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Print XML with Prince!
http://www.princexml.com
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