Re: [Devel] Need faster access

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Mike,

FreeType2 has a .FON driver, so you could load up a Windows .FON file
using the FT2 API (just like for CFF/Type 1 fonts).

Alternatively, you may be able to use the embedded bitmaps in the TT font
(if the TT font has them).  The macro one can use to see if the font has
fixed size bitmaps is FT_IS_FIXED_SIZES.  There is more documentation of
this in freetype.h.  The basic idea is to load the glyphs with FT_Load_Glyph
using a flag value of FT_LOAD_NO_OUTLINE.  See the demo program ftsbit.c
(in the ft2demos distribution) for more details.

Tom

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Mike Owens wrote:


> I'm currently testing with freetype 2.0.4 using a truetype font.  When I
> bring up the system I immediately cache the lower half of the character
> set (US) using the cache manager. Although retrieving characters is quite
> fast, my system is rather slow and I was wondering if using a .fon file
> would be faster since it is just a bitmap font. Is there an example of
> using a .fon file somewhere?