Re: [Freetype] Converting from one font type to another...

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Freetype does an awsome job of abstracting away the differences in
> the various font technologies. Given any font, I can pull out the
> relevant information using freetype (glyphs, codes, mappings
> etc.). I just want to be able to take that information and put that
> into the CEF file format. Since CFF / CEF is supported by freetype,
> I was wondering if it was at all possible to use some of the
> internals of freetype to make that job easier.
>
> If the answer is still 'No',

It is still `no'.  pfaedit comes with a fine scripting language which
you could use to automatically do the conversion.

> is there any place to find out the
> specification for the CEF font format?

The CFF definition is available from Adobe.  Look for file
`5176.CFF.pdf'.


    Werner