Thanks for the quick response. And what about the Freetype functions like ft_memcmp, read_pfb_tag, FT_STREAM_SEEK, etc. is there any documentation for these, or they need code back tracking?
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What i understand till now is that every type 1 postscript font file > > starts with some text like "%!PS-AdobeFont" which has length 14 > > characters. > > This is specified in the `black book'; the ID strings can be either > `%!FontType1-1.0' or `%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0' (the latter identifies a > PostScript resource). > > http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/ > font/pdfs/T1_SPEC.pdf > > > Is there any documentation about these functions as i am unable to > > track them and know what they are actually doing? 2) if i am wrong > > than how is this, checking header format part working in Type1 > > driver. > > The PFB format is documented in Adobe Technote #5040. > > http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/ > font/pdfs/5040.Download_Fonts.pdf > > Note that #5040 also defines `PFA'; however, this is not used today. > Instead, a PFA is simply a PostScript resource where the eexec part is > ASCII encoded instead of binary. > > > Werner > _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
