Re: [ft] Can Freetype process a glyph file directly

[Ammar ul hassan]

> First of all, however, you should check whether you are eligible for
GSoC at all.  I'm not sure whether this is possible right now, since
application for students hasn't started yet – and I don't know whether
FreeType will be accepted for GSoC at all...

ok thanks. I will check it and let you know if interested.

Thanks

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> >>>I can imagine that this would be a nice GSoC project
> >
> > YES, i am a student and taking my master's course.  Can you please
> > tell me some more details if I consider it as my GSoC.
>
> It's quite easy: Add FreeType modules so that it can open and display
> fonts in GF and PK bitmap format, together with its associated TFM
> files!
>
> [A bonus would be suport for TeX's virtual fonts (VF), but this is a
>  non-trivial issue, since a single VF can access multiple fonts, which
>  can be again VFs – you would have to propose probably new functions
>  to get a clean API, for example.  To allow better reusability, the
>  code should be generic so that it can be used as the base for other
>  (more recent) `font collections' (cf. Microsoft's `*.CompositeFont'
>  files, which are XML files).]
>
> First of all, however, you should check whether you are eligible for
> GSoC at all.  I'm not sure whether this is possible right now, since
> application for students hasn't started yet – and I don't know whether
> FreeType will be accepted for GSoC at all...
>
>
>     Werner
>