Hi,
Over the past few days I was successfully able to clone/make both the freetype and freetype-demo libraries. I've also read through the documentation on the site and feel I have a rudimentary understanding of fonts, glyphs, and other font rendering concepts. However, I don't feel ready to tackle any of the issues linked here. I do have experience with C, but it was relatively basic compared to what I've been looking at in the freetype repo. In other words, I haven't worked with codebases this large or complex. Would this present a major problem if I want to get involved with FreeType? In other words, is there room for learning more about C and font rendering as I go?
Currently, I am most interested in the VFLib. From my understanding, TFM stores font information, while the actual glyphs are stored in PK/GF as bitmaps/raster formats. So is the overall goal of the VFLib project then to add TFM and PK/GF rendering capability directly into FreeType? (Ideally without using VFLib as a dependency) In addition, is it possible to check if the original GSOC 2018 contributor, Parth Wazurkar, is still following the mailing list (it seems that email addresses are hidden on the mailing list)? If not, is there an alternate way to get into contact with them?
Thanks