Re: [Devel] Microsoft .FON types support

[Huw D M Davies]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:31:56PM +0300, Aleh Veraskouski wrote:
> Hello there,
>  
>     I was really happy to find next string in the FAQ for freetype
> project.
> *         It provides a uniform interface to access font files. It
> supports both bitmap and scalable formats, including TrueType, OpenType,
> Type1, CID, CFF, Windows FON/FNT, X11 PCF. 
>     But when I tried to open standard Microsoft's MODERN.FON file
> (version 3.0 I expect), FT_Err_Unknown_File_Format was returned by
> FT_New_Face function.
>     This file is shipped with win2k as standart OEM font. It contains
> scaleable vector font (not bitmap).
>  
>     Can you say, please: Does freetype project simply does not support
> vectored .FON files or maybe there is a way make it open this file
> correctly?

No, FreeType doesn't support the stroke .fon format (that's
script.fon, roman.fon and modern.fon in a standard Windows install) it
only supports the bitmap format.

Huw.