> so feel free to contribute some new FreeType modules for GF, PK, and probably VF also based on this code :-)
I am looking forward to it now :) Thanks for your quick response On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Now what i want is to use, MF program instead of Mftrace to process > > METAFONT using FreeType. MF program takes a .mf file as input and > > returns a .tfm and .gf file. This .gf file is then converted using > > GFtoPK or GFtoDVI into .pk or .dvi files respectively and then can > > be used for displaying. > > > > So, my question is if i have a .GF or .glif file is it possible to > > process it using FreeType? Can i use FT_Load_Glyph() or any other > > function to directly input such information. > > FreeType does neither support .gf nor .pk files. Similarly, it > doesn't support the .glif format. > > However, there exists the old VFlib library (from KAKUGAWA Hirotsugu) > > http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/TeX-Guy/dl.html > > that comes with support for .gf, .pk, and some other TeX-related > formats. Recently, its author has updated the license statements (on > request) to be compatible with FreeType, so feel free to contribute > some new FreeType modules for GF, PK, and probably VF also based on > this code :-) > > Adding support for .glif is more complicated – you need an XML parser. > I certainly won't add code to FreeType to parse XML files. Instead, I > would like to *link* to a suitable XML parsing library – eventually it > is planned to support the `SVG' OpenType table, and SVG files are in > XML format also. Ideas how to do so are highly welcomed. > > > Werner > _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
