Re: [Freetype] How to find a specific sfnt table?

[Lars Clausen]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Huw D. M. Davies wrote:
>> Huw D M Davies a écrit :
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I'm wondering what is the correct way to load a given sfnt table.
>> > What I'd like is exactly the functionality of:
>> > 
>> > FT_Face face;
>> > SFNT_Interface *sfnt = ((TT_Face)face)->sfnt;
>> > 
>> > err = sfnt->load_any((TT_Face)face, table, offs, buf, &len);
>> > 
>> > but I'm worried that the structures TT_Face and SFNT_Interface are
>> > subject to change from version to version.
>> >
>> 
>> I think you need a new API, something that we could call
>> "FT_Load_Sfnt_Table".  I'll try to add that after the 2.0.9 release
>> which should happen real soon now..
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks that would be great.  It's basically needed to implement the
> Windows api GetFontData in Wine.  Lars could also use this to generate
> type42 fonts.

Arg!  Are you saying that there isn't any way to get the truetype revision
information through freetype at the moment?  That's annoying -- I'd rather
not have to be that bleeding-edge.  No wonder nobody has dumped Type42
fonts with freetype before.

-Lars

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