Re: [ft] Can Freetype process a glyph file directly

[Ammar ul hassan]

>  so feel free to contribute
some new FreeType modules for GF, PK, and probably VF also based on
this code :-)

I am looking forward to it now :)

Thanks for your quick response

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > Now what i want is to use, MF program instead of Mftrace to process
> > METAFONT using FreeType. MF program takes a .mf file as input and
> > returns a .tfm and .gf file. This .gf file is then converted using
> > GFtoPK or GFtoDVI into .pk or .dvi files respectively and then can
> > be used for displaying.
> >
> > So, my question is if i have a .GF or .glif file is it possible to
> > process it using FreeType?  Can i use FT_Load_Glyph() or any other
> > function to directly input such information.
>
> FreeType does neither support .gf nor .pk files.  Similarly, it
> doesn't support the .glif format.
>
> However, there exists the old VFlib library (from KAKUGAWA Hirotsugu)
>
>   http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/TeX-Guy/dl.html
>
> that comes with support for .gf, .pk, and some other TeX-related
> formats.  Recently, its author has updated the license statements (on
> request) to be compatible with FreeType, so feel free to contribute
> some new FreeType modules for GF, PK, and probably VF also based on
> this code :-)
>
> Adding support for .glif is more complicated – you need an XML parser.
> I certainly won't add code to FreeType to parse XML files.  Instead, I
> would like to *link* to a suitable XML parsing library – eventually it
> is planned to support the `SVG' OpenType table, and SVG files are in
> XML format also.  Ideas how to do so are highly welcomed.
>
>
>     Werner
>