[Devel] Re: [Fonts] FreeType2 BDF driver

[Mark Leisher]

    Francesco> ---Mark: I haven't looked deeply at it, but I suppose it is not
    Francesco> too difficult to adapt your parser in order to be able to parse
    Francesco> the bitmaps only on demand (this supposes separating the header
    Francesco> and the bitmap parsings).  Am I right?

It should be easy.  What will be needed is to perhaps add a list to the font
structure to record which glyphs have been loaded and then some small
modifications of the section of _bdf_parse_glyphs() that checks for
_BDF_BITMAP.

Ever since Werner asked for support for more than 65536 glyphs way back when
(for full CNS11643 fonts if I recall), I have been meaning to add something
like this.  I was going to add it for 5.1 or 5.2, but this may be a good time.
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