Re: [Freetype] Anyone else using FreeType on MacOS? Found a bug...

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 9:29 AM -0500 10/25/01, Paul Miller wrote:
> The problem is the face_index is never passed down to the
> parse_fond() function which determines which sfnt to use. It always
> picks the "first" sfnt.

        Yeah, that would be a problem - wouldn't it ;).

        Code looks fine from here...


> Note that face_index should be in the index taking into account
> scalable fonts only. Some fonts, like Times, have some non-scalable
> bitmap sfnts first, but when iterating over the faces in Times,
> face_index should only be incremented when a scalable face is
> discovered.

        Agreed.


> I also have some code that goes from a font name (like "Times New
> Roman Bold Italic") to the appropriate FOND and face_index, if you
> are interested.

        That would be great, thanks!

        I'm actually going to replace the current lookup code with
the new Font Manager routines that do some of this for you
(FMGetFontFamilyFromName()) and it will be interesting to compare the
results ;).


> Note: I'm not really a "mac guy", so some of this could be wrong.
> But it's certainly working for me!
        Should work just fine from what I can tell.


Leonard
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