Re: [Freetype] A question about cff font

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Nope.  CFF fonts embedded in PDF files are not always CID CFF fonts.

I have yet to write that Unicode cmap synthesiser for the CFF driver.
Time is short, though.  That is what would fix his problem.

Tom

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Boris Letocha wrote:

> IMHO If you embed cff font in PDF it is CID CFF Font and it has not
> charmap. You don't need call FT_GET_Char_Index at all, because CID =
> Glyph index.
>
> Boris Letocha
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:22 AM
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> Subject: [Freetype] A question about cff font
>
> Hi,
>     I want to display PDF text that uses embedded cff font. But I find a
> very serious problem. I can't use FT_Get_Char_Index() function to
> retrieve the correct glyph index for certain character code. Because the
> m_ftFace->charmap is set to NULL.
>     I think it is a bug of FreeType. It should build one charmap for cff
> font as other font types, like type1, truetype etc, or I can't use
> FreeType to support embedded cff font! I hope it wiil be solved in next
> version, thanks.
> Jacky/2001/7/18
>
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