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List:       freetype-devel
Subject:    Re: [Devel] Advice on Font Subsetting
From:       Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr () pdfsages ! com>
Date:       2004-03-25 21:58:58
Message-ID: 6.0.3.0.2.20040325165728.038a6c88 () mail1 ! netreach ! net
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At 07:50 AM 3/25/2004, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>I still think that FreeType, especially the PS parser, is not the
>appropriate tool for your project.  It simply ignores too much of the
>data in a font.  Your parser should act as careful as possible to
>avoid font problems.

         Agreed - which is what I found out when trying to use FT for the 
same purpose...


>To speak frankly, no.  It doesn't fit into FreeType's scope, being a
>rasterizer for various font formats.
>
>On the other hand, it would be great to have a library which accepts
>fonts in various formats and a list of glyph indices, and which
>outputs a subsetted font covering exactly the glyphs in the list.

         It's interesting to note that T1lib actually had a call that is 
supposed to do exactly this (T1_SubsetFont()) - unfortunately is not all 
that up to date and not supported.  But that too might be a starting place...


Leonard

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