Re: [ft-devel] Query about Open Type font

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am trying to rasterise Open Type font using Free Type but it seems
> that, it doesn't support Open Type font.

OpenType fonts are supported, but the OpenType layout tables aren't
interpreted.

> So i have a question does Free Type support Indian Open Type fonts?

Of course they are supported.

> When I tried to raster combinational glyphs the result was not as
> expected.  It looks like that it does not use the font engine
> embedded in to the Indian language font which is in the form of
> unicode combinational tables.  Does it parses all the tables present
> in the Open Type font?

What you are asking for is not the job of FreeType, which is a
rendering library only.  Please use a higher-level layout library like
Qt, ICU, or Pango.


    Werner