Re: [Devel] Getting original stream for an FT_Face?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:29 PM +0100 12/30/03, David Turner wrote:
> > I'd like to avoid re-reading/streaming the data, in favor of 
> > keeping it in memory longer.  Do I need to maintain my own wrappers 
> > for this or can FT be easily extended to "cache" the stream?
> What do you need to do exactly ? Can't you do that by using a custom 
> stream instead ?

        Using the font data from an FT_Face for embedding in a PDF (or PS).

	On Windows or Unix it's not such a big deal, since I can keep 
around either the pathname to the file OR the memory blob I got from 
the OS...

	On the Mac, however, this isn't possible due to the 
complexity of the resources and variety of formats, etc.   I've 
considered re-architecting ftmac.c in order to expose a variety of 
new APIs/interfaces that would enable me to do what I need - but I 
was hoping that was a last resort.

	But I guess since I'm the maintainer of that code anyway, I 
can do what I want...   [now to see if I remember my CVS passwords ;)]

        Unless you have any other suggestions...


LDR
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