On Sat, 5 Mar 2016, Martok wrote:
Nice work! Certainly comes just in time as I'm looking at PDF libraries for the
next work-related project.
- On windows (possibly mac), allow to use native font mechanisms for extracting
info from TTF files.
Would using freetype/freetype2 make more sense? There are native implementations
in the CCR and the freetype2 library interface is surprisingly simple as well.
Well, I didn't want to use external libraries.
I have no idea of the state of Freetype in CCR.
Last time I checked it, it was totally incomprehensible and hopelessly outdated code.
But I certainly may be wrong there, although a quick look at e.g. ttfile.pas
is not exactly encouraging.
But nothing prevents the use of these libraries: since we need to 'abstract'
out the relevant functionality anyway for the Windows OS, a kind of
manager/driver approach such as used in other parts of the RTL is a definite
possibility.
(On windows, the OS itself provides these functions, the situation is different
there)
Contributions in this area are definitely welcome.
Michael.
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