Re: Wrapping TTF files ?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On the fontforge discussion list George has already been asked to
> provide such libraries, but this doesn't have top priority, AFAIK.
> You might push him again.
> 
> What I imagine is a kind of `PS document builder': You provide
> resource files, fonts in various formats, and the document data, and
> the builder glues everything together.  I think this should be
> possible if we use ghostscript as an output filter: We then no longer
> need to embed the cff resources directly; instead, ghostscript loads
> the font and does the proper subsetting.

There is still a different solution: we could add a PDF backend to
LilyPond, where we can put the fonts in directly. This is a
significant amount of work, but it's less work than I thought - I'm
just now reading the PDF spec.

Nevertheless, things would get hairy if we'd have to do glyph
subsetting, and we wouldn't be spending time on LilyPond's core
business.


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