[Fonts]FreeType 2 backend submitted for inclusion in CVS

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Dear all,

I've just submitted the latest version of the FreeType 2 backend and
the latest mkfontscale for inclusion into CVS.  For XFree86 members,
they're available as patches 5305 through 5308; they are no longer
available from my web page.

Many thanks to all who helped with development and testing, and to the
FreeType authors for their willingness to uglify their code in order
to make my life easier.

Regards,

Juliusz

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Re: [Fonts]FreeType 2 backend submitted for inclusion in CVS

[Mike A. Harris]

On 18 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

Date: 18 Jun 2002 16:06:15 +0200
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Subject: [Fonts]FreeType 2 backend submitted for inclusion in CVS

Dear all,

I've just submitted the latest version of the FreeType 2 backend and
the latest mkfontscale for inclusion into CVS.  For XFree86 members,
they're available as patches 5305 through 5308; they are no longer
available from my web page.

Fantastic!  I look forward to testing out the new bits.

Many thanks to all who helped with development and testing, and to the
FreeType authors for their willingness to uglify their code in order
to make my life easier.

And a big thanks to you Juliusz for doing all of this work.  It 
is going to make a big difference for many users.

I'm considering the possiblity of including all or some of this
in my XFree86 packaging in rawhide.

How well do you think it would fit into 4.2.0?

Thanks again,
TTYL

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Re: [Fonts]FreeType 2 backend submitted for inclusion in CVS

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

 Mike == Mike A Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Mike I'm considering the possiblity of including all or some of this
Mike in my XFree86 packaging in rawhide.

I suggest you do so.

Mike How well do you think it would fit into 4.2.0?

I'm using it right now on a suse 7.3 box with their rpm modified to
patch in Juliusz' backend.  It works very well.

The only note is that if the current version had not added CID
support, I'd suggest patching the type1 backend like so:

diff -uNrdb Type1.bak/t1funcs.c Type1/t1funcs.c
--- Type1.bak/t1funcs.c Mon Feb 18 15:51:57 2002
+++ Type1/t1funcs.c Tue Jun 18 18:44:26 2002
@@ -1443,10 +1443,6 @@
 #else
 static FontRendererRec renderers[] = {
 #endif
-  { .pfa, 4, NULL, Type1OpenScalable,
-NULL, Type1GetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES },
-  { .pfb, 4, NULL, Type1OpenScalable,
-NULL, Type1GetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES }
 };
 
 #ifdef BUILDCID
@@ -1464,17 +1460,7 @@
 void
 Type1RegisterFontFileFunctions(void)
 {
-int i;
- 
-#ifdef BUILDCID
-Type1InitStdProps();
-for (i=0; i  sizeof(Type1RendererInfo) / sizeof(FontRendererRec); i++)
-FontFileRegisterRenderer(Type1RendererInfo[i]);
-#else
-T1InitStdProps();
-for (i=0; i  sizeof(renderers) / sizeof(FontRendererRec); i++)
-FontFileRegisterRenderer(renderers[i]);
-#endif
+ /* null function */
 }
 
 int 


That will ensure that the old type1 backend only serves the cid
fonts.  If the ft2 backend does now include cid support, the patch
would need to exclude the old type1 backend from libfont.{a,so}.

Also, this patch may be a reasonable addition to the ft2 backend:

diff -udNrb xc.old/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.c xc.new/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.c
--- xc.old/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.c  Tue Apr 16 22:25:38 2002
+++ xc.new/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.c  Tue Jun 18 18:49:31 2002
@@ -1739,6 +1739,10 @@
  FreeTypeGetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES},
 {.PFB, 4, 0, FreeTypeOpenScalable, 0,
  FreeTypeGetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES},
+{.pfr, 4, 0, FreeTypeOpenScalable, 0,
+ FreeTypeGetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES},
+{.PFR, 4, 0, FreeTypeOpenScalable, 0,
+ FreeTypeGetInfoScalable, 0, CAPABILITIES},
 };
 static int num_renderers = sizeof(renderers) / sizeof(renderers[0]);
 
given that ft2 now supports pfr0 fonts.

-JimC

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