Re: [ft] Handling an embedded CID font using Freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> It would be nice if someone could add parsing of CMap files for CFFs
>> to FreeType, similar to attaching AFM files to Type 1 fonts...
> 
> The problem would be that you can compose several CIDFonts with a
> CMap to produce a composite font (PDF specifically restricts it to
> one descendant CIDFont, but that's specific to PDF).
> 
> I'm not sure if it would be possible to handle that case in
> Freetype.

My suggestion is to handle only the simplest case, i.e., one CMap
file.  FreeType shouldn't become a replacement for ghostscript :-)

Regarding composite font support: It would be nice if FreeType
supported that also, but not via CIDFonts but rather the higher-level
XML stuff from Microsoft.  If someone is going to add SVG image
support (for emojis and the like), we need an external XML parser
anyway...


    Werner