> we are currently investigating if it's possible to use FreeType as
> our font engine in a commercial product. We need to be able to parse
> a font, obtain general information about it and glyph specific
> information. I've looked at the documentation and so far i don't see
> any issues.
This is fine.
> However we also need to subset fonts.
This is not fine with FreeType.
> Do you know of any reliable opensource alternatives that allow font
> subsetting or extension on FreeType made by other people that allow
> font subsetting ?
What about the xpdf library, as used e.g. in pdfTeX? An even better
subsetting engine is in dvipdfmx.
> How stable is the (private) structure of FreeType. Can we implement
> our own subset code on top of the parsing code used in FreeType
> without having to rewrite it every time we want to upgrade to a more
> recent version of FreeType?
Nothing is guaranteed. The private structure is -- private.
Werner
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