Re: [ft-devel] Incremental font support

2009-02-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
We've been trying to resurrect the freetype bridge code in ghostscript, and have been testing against the freetype 2.3.8 release. I think there may be some bit rot in the incremental font support. Indeed. After Graham has stopped to work on this, noone has maintained this code; from time to

RE: [ft-devel] Incremental font support

2009-02-18 Thread Graham Asher
I'm sorry to say that there is no chance that I shall work on this again. I have too much on my plate for the foreseeable future. But I claim (as always ;-) that the parts of the bridge code I wrote are relatively easy to follow and can probably be debugged by single-stepping and thinking hard.

Re: [ft-devel] Incremental font support

2009-02-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I'm sorry to say that there is no chance that I shall work on this again. I have too much on my plate for the foreseeable future. OK. But I claim (as always ;-) that the parts of the bridge code I wrote are relatively easy to follow and can probably be debugged by single-stepping and

Re: [ft-devel] Incremental font support

2009-02-18 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Henry Stiles henry.sti...@artifex.com wrote: to build gs with freeype: make FT_BRIDGE=1 FT_CFLAGS=-I../freetype-2.3.8/include FT_LIB=./freetype-2.3.8/objs/libfreetype.a debug Just to follow up for anyone trying this; this is with the 'freetype' branch from my

Re: [ft-devel] Incremental font support

2009-02-18 Thread Henry Stiles
To help in debugging it would be great if you can provide a small stand-alone snippet which I can compile easily, together with small input data if necessary. Hi Werner ttgload.c revision 1.205 broke incremental font support for type 42 fonts (postscript embedded truetype fonts), revision