[ft-announce] Re: [ft-devel] Fwd: Question about Type 42 support in FreeType

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Have any answers to my questions?

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> In your FreeType features or claims you mention that Type 42 fonts
> have limited support.  What does that mean?  How is this affected by
> CID fonts or other PS font issues?

>From t42drivr.c:

  1) CID Fonts are not currently supported.
  2) Incremental fonts making use of the GlyphDirectory keyword
     will be loaded, but the rendering will be using the TrueType
     tables.
  3) As for Type1 fonts, CDevProc is not supported.
  4) The Metrics dictionary is not supported.
  5) AFM metrics are not supported.


    Werner