Re: [Devel] Telling font types from an FT_Face?

[George Williams]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:40, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> probably followed by a subtype.  Please make suggestions,
> corrections, additions, etc.

> sfnt:
>   SFNT_TT_SBIT       -- OT spec (only bitmaps) [3]
> [3] I'm not sure whether this subtype is really useful.
Um... are you sure this is in the OT spec? I thought it was an extension
thought up by the X11 people?

Additional format:
        SFNT_TT_MAC_SBIT        Mac bitmap only SFNT format [4]

Is it important whether a font is in a mac resource file or not?
        SFNT_CFF_MAC    CFF font within a mac resource fork/dfont
        SFNT_TT_MAC_SBIT_MAC    Mac bitmap SFNT in resource/dfont
        SFNT_TT_MAC     Truetype font within a mac resource fork/dfont
        PS_MAC          Type1 font within a mac resource fork [5]


[4] Apple has a different SBIT format (with a 'bhed' table rather than
        a 'head')

[5] As far as I know OS/X doesn't support the old type1 resource format
        (because OS/X doesn't support the old NFNT format, and an NFNT
        resource was required to use a Type1 font) so I don't think
        type1 fonts ever go in dfonts.