RE: [Fontforge-devel] Converting type 1 Charstrings toType2Charstrings

[Rob G. <ro...@ex...>]

Thanks, George. =20

I did get a good laugh out of=20
"I can think of far more interesting ways to spend those few days, ..."

I couldn't agree more...I did give this a shot, but as the weekend drew
to a close I had to finish this project, so I scrapped the idea and
spline conversion in general and just wrote a stack to take in the type
1 ops and output them as type 2.  It's pretty straightforward.

Thanks again and good luck on your marathon--I'm working on a mini this
spring, maybe I'll do a whole one sometime (I dunno, though--that's a
long way to run).
Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: George Williams [mailto:gw...@si...]=20
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:08 PM
To: Rob Guckenberger
Cc: fon...@li...
Subject: RE: [Fontforge-devel] Converting type 1 Charstrings
toType2Charstrings

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:57, Rob Guckenberger wrote:
> I have been exploring one other option, but I am tempted to try to go
> back to the original idea of extracting the necessary code to get
> 'PSCharStringToSplines' and 'SplineChar2PS2' to work.
That's going to be a fair chunk of work.

>=20
> I would think that this would be possible in a few days--would you
> agree? =20
I can think of far more interesting ways to spend those few days, but I
suppose grabbing routines until you no longer get linker warnings won't
take that long.
> Should this remove any cygwin dependencies? =20
Well, ff uses cygwin to get unix system & library calls. It doesn't
really need cygwin per se, but it does need vsprintf() and read() and
strchr() and so on.

The ui uses X but you can build ff with no ui -- in which case it can
run scripts, which is all you would need.

It might be easier just to try to build all of ff (with no ui) under an
some other system that provides a real C library. It might just build
under Visual studio, I'd give that a try before trying to figure out
what dependencies you'll need. Or under MinGw (or whatever it's called).
>=20
> Do you know if this will compile with Visual studio 6, etc? =20
I don't know, but don't see why not.
> Would you
> have any interest in participating in this project?
I'll be happy to answer questions. But I don't have much spare time at
the moment (I'm training for a marathon and that takes a huge chunk of
time).