Re: [ft] Easiest way to support very old 'typ1' fonts?

[George Williams]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:14, Derek Clegg wrote:
> I have a collection of very old 'typ1' fonts for the Mac.  These  
> appear to be little more than a Type1 font wrapped in an 'sfnt'  
> wrapper.  Unfortunately, Freetype doesn't appear to support this  
> format.  I have a few questions:
Ok, the cvs version of fontforge now supports these guys.

I just stripped out the 'TYP1' table and sent it off to my type1 parser,
and it all worked.

The 'TYP1' table is not a standard type1 format, it's more like a binary
version of a gsf file (the table is only encrypted once (for the
charstrings), but unlike gsf the encryption is binary).

The file has version "number" 'typ1'. and contains the following tables:
 ENCO
 FNAM
 HFMX
 TYP1
 cmap
 fdsc
 kern
 name