Re: [ft] FT_New_Face

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 9:57 AM +1000 9/18/06, Michael Day wrote:
> We do that too in Prince, however this method is difficult to use 
> for TrueType Collection (TTC) fonts such as the Chinese mingliu.ttc 
> font, as the table offsets are relative to the entire font file, but 
> GetFontData() only gives you the single font that you asked for, 
> which appears to be broken when handed to FreeType. Can you handle 
> this situation by rewriting the offsets, or do you only handle 
> non-TTC fonts?

	I don't support TTC fonts using that methodology, since it 
doesn't work as well for TTC (and also certain T1 fonts).   For 
those, we don't use FT at all and load the font & respective data 
ourselves.


Leonard
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