Re: [Freetype] direct access to TrueType glyph's data

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 01:09 PM 1/22/2002 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I know how to get the contours from the FT_Outline
> > (and I could convert them back in to a TrueType form) but
> > I'm looking for the actual data; ie: the bytes for a
> > glyph as they appear in the font file.
>
> Currently, FT can't do this (and I wonder whether this is useful in
> general).  Why do you need this?

        It's useful for the reason that he mentioned - using FT as part of 
a "font embedding" solution for formats such as PS and PDF.


Leonard