Re: [Freetype] CIDFont support

[山内 英敏]

Hello,

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Freetype] CIDFont support
Date: 13 Apr 2002 22:31:38 +0100

> Allen Zhao <address@hidden>:
> 
> AZ>   Adobe does have its own CID cmap format. But I believe the new
> AZ> CID standard is actually using the open type format, where cmap table
> AZ> is exactly the same as in truetype v1.0.
> 
> We are not speaking of OpenType/CFF (which FreeType 2 is believed to
> fully support).  We are speaking of Adobe's CIDFont format which
> requires an on-disk ``CMap'' file.  As you rightly mention, this
> format is being phased out, but there are still a lot of high-quality
> East-Asian CIDFonts around, and we do want to support them.

Supplement:

We are talking about the "naked" CIDFonts now.  They are similler as
Type1 font files and do not have buildin cmaps.  

On the other hand, the "sfnt-wrapped" CIDFonts are similler as
OpenType/CFF and have buildin cmaps.

FreeType 2 is already support "sfnt-wrapped" one.  And many CIDFonts
are already "sfnt-wrapped" but not OpenType/CFF. (e.g. Morisawa New
CIDFont.)

---- YAMANO-UCHI, Hidetoshi