RE: [ft] Compressing CJK Fonts effectively

[Iñaki Castillo Arteta]

I always use compressed fonts but I decompress them myself.
Then I use FT_New_Memory_Face to load the fonts.
Is there any reason to have the decompression stuff inside the Freetype library?

Inaki.

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De: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden En nombre de Matthew Tippett
Enviado el: martes, 07 de septiembre de 2010 18:31
Para: address@hidden
Asunto: [ft] Compressing CJK Fonts effectively

Hi,

I am working on an embedded project which requires CJK truetype fonts.  
Since it is an embedded system, I want to save as much disk space as 
possible.

The fonts we are using seem to compress to about 70% of their original 
size - which could save around 13 MB on the ROM image.

I noticed the post in 2002 from David Turner when he completed the gzip 
support talking about not wanting to encourage stupid choices (like 
gzip-compressed truetype fonts).

What is the current best practice for managing large CJK fonts in a 
storage efficient manner?

Matthew

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