Re: [ft-devel] dfont and TrueType collections

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 07:37 PM, mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: Hi, On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:34:23 -0400 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I had to fix a bug [1] in Pango and fontconfig where the ftglue-derived code was checking "face->num_faces> 1" to detect TrueType Collections. This fails with Apple dfont's

Re: [ft-devel] dfont and TrueType collections

2009-04-09 Thread mpsuzuki
Hi, On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:34:23 -0400 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >I had to fix a bug [1] in Pango and fontconfig where the ftglue-derived code >was checking "face->num_faces > 1" to detect TrueType Collections. This fails >with Apple dfont's where num_faces is the number of faces in different str

[ft-devel] dfont and TrueType collections

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, I had to fix a bug [1] in Pango and fontconfig where the ftglue-derived code was checking "face->num_faces > 1" to detect TrueType Collections. This fails with Apple dfont's where num_faces is the number of faces in different streams of the dfont and does not mean the current face is a TT

RE: [ft-devel] Open Type Font Support on Mobile Devices?

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Asher
I am responsible for the original port of FreeType to Symbian OS, and I believe that Symbian OS is now open source. I have also ported FreeType to Windows Mobile for my map renderer, CartoType, and have experienced no difficulties with it. However, it's misleading to talk too much about 'porting'.

Re: [ft-devel] Open Type Font Support on Mobile Devices?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, For OpenType complex shaping you need HarfBuzz [1]. Google engineers are working on using it for the Chromium port on Linux [2]. Using Pango with the FreeType backend is a simpler solution (Pango+FreeType uses HarfBuzz internally). If your primary use is to get Arabic rendering done, yo

[ft-devel] Open Type Font Support on Mobile Devices?

2009-04-09 Thread Waqar Ahmad
Hi, Is there anybody who has been working on font related stuff on mobile devices? I am interested in getting Open Type Font (OTF) support on symbian, windows mobile devices and most likely on Android in future as well. As far as I know, Open Type Fonts (Arabic, Urdu etc.) are not supported on Sym

[ft-devel] Open Type Font Support on Mobile Devices?

2009-04-09 Thread Waqar Ahmad
Hi, Is there anybody who has been working on font related stuff on mobile devices? I am interested in getting Open Type Font (OTF) support on symbian, windows mobile devices and most likely on Android in future as well. As far as I know, Open Type Fonts (Arabic, Urdu etc.) are not supported on Sym

[ft-devel] Patch: enable UTF8 path names on Windows

2009-04-09 Thread Aras Pranckevicius
Hi, There was a thread about Freetype unable to open font files with non-ASCII file names on Windows, with a proposed solution: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00036.html Now I had to revisit this problem (because we use Freetype, and it can't open those files on Windows). I