Re: [ft] question about FT_NEW_FACE()

[Jonathan Blow]

In my experience, FT_New_Face will not load the entire font into memory.
However, for me this caused a lot of problems, and my preferred route
was to load the font file myself and then call FT_New_Memory_Face.

It sounds like you might want the opposite -- for as much of the font
file to stay out of memory as possible -- but you are not really in
control of that either. The best you could do is kind of hope. If you
are worried about the size of a font file, then perhaps you may want to
go a more economical route, like just using a bitmapped font with
homebrew rendering code, rather than a ttf.

But I do not think I would attempt to run FreeType at all on a system
with 256kb of RAM. Are you sure you don't mean 256MB?


leesky wrote:
> dear supports, I am a freshman using freetype. I have read "FreeType 2
> Tutorial Step 1 ― simple glyph loading ".
> There are some important APIs explained. Create a new face object by
> calling
> FT_NEW_FACE(library, "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf", 0, &face ).
> I am not sure whether the font file, "arial.ttf", will be loaded in
> the memory entirely.
> It's important for my embeded system, since my embeded system just has
> 256kb memory, there must be more than 130kb for applications and RTOS.
> Thank for your answer!
> yours sincerely
> Su
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