Re: [SharpOS Developers] True Type Fonts

[Sander v. R. <s.v...@sy...>]

Awesome :)
Very useful (eventually), but i don't envy the world of hurt you're
getting yourself into ;)


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Dickinson
<jon...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have taken the dive and I am busy implementing True Type font
> support: it's going to crop up sooner or later and I can't really help
> out with the stuff happening in Ensemble at the moment (I still need
> to do some more reading).
>
> In any case, the format is horrible! So far I am reading in the cmap
> (maps unicode characters to glyphs), cvt (constants) and name (name
> table, has the font name etc.).
>
> I am thinking I will do the glyf table next, so that I can start
> drawing these bad-boys out ;).
>
> Just a heads up so that no one else works on it at the same time. I
> will be uploading it to MOSA some time soon so if you want to help out
> just say. The code will, of course, be available for all the MOSA
> affiliates (MOSA affiliates ONLY).
>
> --
> Jonathan
>
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