On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:38:53PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Huw D M Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now, IIRC (Huw will correct me if I'm wrong), it was said that > > > FreeType also supports Postscript fonts and .fon fonts. So the way to go > > > would be to extend Wine's FreeType support to .fon fonts. > > > > Yes, that's the idea. At the moment we ignore any font that isn't > > sfnt format (that's anything that isn't TT or OpenType). The issues > > are that we need to implement something sensible for GetGlyphOutline > > and GetOutlineTextMetrics for bitmap or Type1 fonts. > > I would expect that for at least very first time that functions will > fail for bitmap fonts and return glyph data in GGO_BEZIER format for > Type1 fonts. Later we can add cubic <-> quadratic spline conversion > routines and some special handling for bitmap fonts. Most applications > don't use or provide advanced vector graphics at all. As a side effect > of adding support for bitmap fonts will be retired x11drv font support. > and a possibility for real WYSIWYG in printing.
For bitmap fonts to be useful GetGlyphOutline will have to return the bitmaps for GGO_BITMAP (this probably isn't what Windows does, but I think we can live with the difference). Of course once we do it for .fon's then .pcf/.bdf come almost for free. Actually I expect the hard bit is getting the TEXTMETRICs right. Huw.
