Re: [ft-devel] plan to support sfnt-wrapped CID-keyed font

[mpsuzuki]

Hi,

On 29 Aug 2008 19:35:09 -0700
George Williams <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 04:23, address@hidden wrote:
>> Also, I introduced a boolean "is_sfnt_ps" to avoid the
>> installation of bytecode interpreter for sfnt-wrapped
>> CID-keyed fonts. Maybe it is NOT essential.
>Note that there are also sfnt wrapped type1 fonts which also use the
>"typ1" version. They have a "TYP1" table rather than a "CID " table and
>that table contains a bare type1 font.
>
>> Thus, I added 2 booleans to check if table directory has
>> "CID " or "typ1" table. If one of them is found,
>I believe it is "TYP1" and not "typ1"

Oops, it's my mistake in description (fortunately,
the patch checks "TYP1"), thank you for pointing out.

>> If "CID " or "TYP1" is found, the stream is seeked to the table
>> and binary header is parsed (sorry, at present, sfnt-wrapped
>> Type1 is not supported because I don't have the documents nor
>> sample fonts). 
>I'll send you the two examples I've got, off list.

Great thank you, I will improve the patch to access TYP1
table, maybe in next Tuesday.

Regards,
mpsuzuki