RE: [Devel] Telling font types from an FT_Face?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 9:54 AM +0100 12/17/03, Turner David wrote:
> Hello Leonard,

        Hi David!   It's good to be back to work on/with FT on a regular basis!


> The best thing for now is the function named FT_Get_X11_Font_Format, defined
> in FT_XFREE86_H, aka <freetype/ftxf86.h>.

	This function is definitely what I am looking for (and was 
thinking I had to write myself).


> We could make it official I think, if we list the correct values, i.e.
> add something like that to the header file:

	I think that exposing this as a public API call, with known 
return values, would be a worthwhile addition.   I'm happy to make 
the changes (though I need to figure out if I still know my CVS 
password ;).


> for now, the values are embedded in each font driver that implements
> the service.

	Would it be better to put the info into the FT_FACE itself 
during loading?  It would change the public data structure, though...


> Note that this API doesn't deal with the differentiation between
> OpenType/TrueType and OpenType/CFF fonts.

	For my needs, I need to know this differentiation - so yes, 
it would have to handle this as well.  Which again, might be better 
done at load time and filling in the FT_Face...


LDR
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