Re: [Freetype] gzipped fonts

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:44 AM +0200 10/4/02, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> FreeType contains renderers for bdf & pcf fonts. But it can't read
> gzipped files. Often, these fonts are distributed as .bdf.gz or .pcf.gz,
> and so are useless with FreeType.
>
> Is there a plan or patches to use zlib with FreeType ?

	This discussion has come up before, and we recommend that you 
simply implement the gzip decompression yourself passing the data via 
memory buffer into FT.


Leonard
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