Re: [Devel] Freetype2 patch on Mac

[Dan Williams]

Hi,

Patch looks good to me, nothing obviously bad/wrong/whacked stands
out.  Are you sure there's always only one FOND resource for a Suitcase
font?

Dan


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Garrick Meeker wrote:

> I've been playing around with a patch Dan Williams posted a while ago for 
> supporting multiple fonts per file.  It seems to work pretty well now.  There 
> are several parts of my extended patch:
> 
> A new function FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec() that takes an FSSpec instead of a 
> filename and added some consts.  This is useful because most font types are 
> loaded with FSSpecs anyway on the Mac, and you don't have to worry about / 
> vs. : path separators if you're using Codewarrior or not.  If you're using 
> Codewarrior's C runtime, there's a function to create a FILE* from an FSSpec.
> 
> Error checking fix in FT_New_Face_From_LWFN().
> 
> Support for multiple styles in FT_New_Face_From_Suitcase().  There is only 
> one 
> FOND resource (I think?) and the index should be used read reading the FOND, 
> not when getting the resource.
> 
> Dan's original patch which I updated for 2.1.7, added support for LWFN 
> (Type1) 
> when counting fonts, and return an error if you pass in a bad index (so you 
> can now loop through all the fonts).
> 
> Please let me know if you want me to make any changes or split this up.  I 
> think this improves the Mac support a great deal and this patch is already 
> pretty well tested.
>