Re: [ft] Freetype2 and TimesNewRoman?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Does Freetype2 support TimesNewRoman Font?

Certainly.

> I believe this is 'Serif'?

TimesNewRoman is indeed a serif font.  However, it depends on your
system's font setup whether, say, the HTML fallback font `serif' maps
to TimesNewRoman.

> Unfortunately when searching for Glyph information using the
> FT_Get_Char_Index function I'm getting 0 which means that the char
> index has not been found.  The character 'a' is all I am searching
> for at this stage (the char index for 'a').

This should work, of course.  So I guess there's a bug somewhere in
your code.

> If this does in fact support serif fonts then it's probably
> something I'm doing wrong and I'll eventually sort it out.

Yep :-)


    Werner