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Re: [Devel] font format corner cases
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] font format corner cases |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:13:21 +0200 (CEST) |
> There is still the issue of how best to handle things like gzip(1)ed
> files. It seems that the next level up from ft should handle that,
> so perhaps ftview and friends should be patched to try using libz to
> access files that fail with FT_New_Face(), yes?
As you correctly say, this should be done one level higher than
FreeType. I haven't experimented with libz, but I think that
FreeType's memory management is flexible enough to provide hooks
which you can use for compressed streams.
Do you want to contribute something? :-)
Werner