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Re: [Devel] A new CFF encoding bug


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Devel] A new CFF encoding bug
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:40:35 +0200 (CEST)

> Ok. If the font may not have an encoding is it legal to call
> FT_Get_First_Char/FT_Get_Next_Char in order to extract glyph names
> (i.e.  built-in encoding) using FT_Get_Glyph_Name.  This works for
> the file in question but I wonder if it is generally true for
> Type1/CFF fonts.

No.  If there is no encoding FT_Get_First_Char/FT_Get_Next_Char can't
be used -- actually I don't understand how this can work for you with
`font_buf.cff'.  Instead, you should iterate over all glyph indices
with FT_Get_Glyph_Name to extract the glyph names so that you can
build your own encoding.


    Werner



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