Re: [ft-devel] WOFF2 support in GSoC

2019-03-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> A question related to the compression library: > > Assuming the Brotli library from Google is used, how would it be > integrated into the codebase? Should the build system be modified to > look for the library in the system (like for the gzip drivers), or > should the source code be included

Re: [ft-devel] WOFF2 support in GSoC

2019-03-23 Thread Nikhil Ramakrishnan
Hi, > I think so. The metadata were in WOFF1 as well. They contain information > usually packed into the 'name' table, but perhaps more structured. It is > optional and can be added eventually. OK. A question related to the compression library: Assuming the Brotli library from Google is

Re: [ft-devel] WOFF2 support in GSoC

2019-03-21 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:09 PM Nikhil Ramakrishnan < ramakrishnan.nik...@gmail.com> wrote: > A few questions: > > * Are we looking at an implementation similar to WOFF (synthesize an > SFNT from the WOFF, and load the SFNT)? This will mean no API to read > WOFF2 metadata. > I think so. The

Re: [ft-devel] WOFF2 support in GSoC

2019-03-21 Thread Nikhil Ramakrishnan
Hi all, First of all, thank you for the great project description, the links provided are quite helpful! I read more about the project, and it got me quite interested in the WOFF2 format and its compression. I have a few observations: * The structure of WOFF2 is quite similar to WOFF fonts

[ft-devel] WOFF2 support in GSoC

2019-03-18 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Hi all, I have just added another idea for a GSoC project: WOFF2 support. It should be posted on https://www.freetype.org/gsoc.html shortly. Alexei ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org