RE: [ft] FT_Face::family/style name

[Nik Napalm]

Thanks for your suggestions, I will try what you said before attempting a self write for the parser.
 
Regards,
 
Nik.

> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:05:34 +0900
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [ft] FT_Face::family/style name
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:45:05 +0000
> Nik Napalm <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hmm. FT_New_Face() & FT_Open_Face() examine various file formats
> to determine the correct file formats, and examine many checks
> to keep the applications from crash by broken fonts. So the first
> step would be the reduction of the drivers to essential formats
> only, by editing modules.cfg. Also, please disable Macintosh font
> support by undefine FT_CONFIG_OPTION_MAC_FONTS in ftoption.h (it
> tries various pathnames to access Macintosh resource fork by POSIX
> API).
>
> After that, if you think still there are still too much works,
> and if you only care the family & subfamily names in "name" table
> and you don't care whether the font file is broken or not, I
> recommend you to write your own TrueType parser. The parser in
> FT2 is src/sfnt/ttload.c::tt_face_load_name().
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki

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