Re: [ft] Handling an embedded CID font using Freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Parsing the CMap table will give you a mapping from character code
> to CID, which you can then use to pull the glyph from the font. (In
> Postscript terms you "compose" the CIDFont with the CMap to create a
> usable instance of the CIDFont).
> 
> CMaps are defined in a highly restricted variant of Postscript, so
> should be fairly easy to parse.

It would be nice if someone could add parsing of CMap files for CFFs
to FreeType, similar to attaching AFM files to Type 1 fonts...


    Werner