1 FreeType font driver for PCF fonts
3 Francesco Zappa Nardelli
4 <francesco.zappa.nardelli@ens.fr>
10 PCF (Portable Compiled Format) is a binary bitmap font format, largely used
11 in X world. This code implements a PCF driver for the FreeType library.
12 Glyph images are loaded into memory only on demand, thus leading to a small
15 Information on the PCF font format can only be worked out from
16 `pcfread.c', and `pcfwrite.c', to be found, for instance, in the XFree86
17 (www.xfree86.org) source tree (xc/lib/font/bitmap/).
19 Many good bitmap fonts in bdf format come with XFree86: they can be
20 compiled into the pcf format using the `bdftopcf' utility.
26 The driver has been tested on linux/x86 and sunos5.5/sparc. In both
27 cases the compiler was gcc. When back in Paris, I will test it also
34 The variety of encodings that accompanies pcf fonts appears to encompass the
35 small set defined in freetype.h. On the other hand, each pcf font defines
36 two properties that specify encoding and registry.
38 I decided to make these two properties directly accessible, leaving to the
39 client application the work of interpreting them. For instance:
41 #include "pcftypes.h" /* include/freetype/internal/pcftypes.h */
44 PCF_Public_Face pcfface;
46 FT_New_Face( library,..., &face );
48 pcfface = (PCF_Public_Face)face;
50 if ((pcfface->charset_registry == "ISO10646") &&
51 (pcfface->charset_encoding) == "1")) [..]
53 Thus the driver always export `ft_encoding_none' as
54 face->charmap.encoding. FT_Get_Char_Index() behavior is unmodified, that
55 is, it converts the ULong value given as argument into the corresponding
62 - dealing explicitly with encodings breaks the uniformity of freetype2
65 - except for encodings properties, client applications have no
66 visibility of the PCF_Face object. This means that applications
67 cannot directly access font tables and are obliged to trust
70 - currently, glyph names and ink_metrics are ignored.
72 I plan to give full visibility of the PCF_Face object in the next
73 release of the driver, thus implementing also glyph names and
76 - height is defined as (ascent - descent). Is this correct?
78 - if unable to read size information from the font, PCF_Init_Face
79 sets available_size->width and available_size->height to 12.
81 - too many english grammar errors in the readme file :-(
87 Copyright (C) 2000 by Francesco Zappa Nardelli
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112 Keith Packard wrote the pcf driver found in XFree86. His work is at
113 the same time the specification and the sample implementation of the
114 PCF format. Undoubtedly, this driver is inspired from his work.