Re: [Devel] FreeType2PDF?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 7:44 AM -0500 7/3/02, Lance Dyas wrote:
> At MicroImages we are using FreeType1.x and we are in the process of
> enhancing our pdf export to include text/fonts (we are somewhat behind but
> are rather dependent on features in Freetype1 including Glyph Positioning
> Tables).

	There is nothing that I am aware of that is available in FT1 
that you can't get to from FT2...


> There seem to be a number of required fields for Font Descriptor in the pdf
> specification that are either buried or obsfucated within FreeType.

        True...


> StemV: The thickness, measured horizontally, of the dominant vertical stems
> of glyphs in the font.

	My code just forces this to 80 for some reason...Need to look 
at why this was done...


> ItalicAngle: The angle expressed in degrees counterclockwise from the
> vertical... etc.

        I get this value from TT_Face->postscript.italicAngle



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