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Re: [Freetype] How to get a postscript font's name?

From: Leonard Rosenthol
Subject: Re: [Freetype] How to get a postscript font's name?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:17:40 -0400 
At 4:36 PM +0200 10/17/01, David Turner wrote:

Actually, regarding UniType, I was thinking about parsing the font
files directly since it's a lot faster than using FreeType to
retrieve basic information of this sort.


        Shouldn't that tell you that FT needs to be modified/improved
and NOT that you should be writing another set of font format
parsers?!?!?!?



That's what GnomePrint already does, by the way..


        And pretty much everyone else out there that is doing PS or
PDF font embedding (or at least reading metrics).   However, that
just seems so backwards to punt all the great format handling code in
FT...


Leonard
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