Thanks for the quick reply. Antony Lee On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 3:51 PM Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Does FreeType provide a way to parse an AFM file and extract the > > corresponding glyph metrics and kerning information, when the > > accompanying PFA/PFB file is not present? > > No. > > > One use case is Matplotlib's postscript backend, which can layout > > glyphs just based on their metrics but does not need the pfa/pfb > > files itself. Right now Matplotlib uses its own handwritten AFM > > parser, but it would be nice if FreeType's AFM support could be used > > instead. > > Well, FreeType is a *rendering* library, i.e., its main goal is to > produce bitmaps. Scanning AFM files alone is completely useless for > FreeType; for this reason there isn't a separate API to access the > metrics data. > > > Werner > _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
