Re: [ft] using freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

> we are currently investigating if it's possible to use FreeType as
> our font engine in a commercial product. We need to be able to parse
> a font, obtain general information about it and glyph specific
> information. I've looked at the documentation and so far i don't see
> any issues.

This is fine.

> However we also need to subset fonts.

This is not fine with FreeType.

> Do you know of any reliable opensource alternatives that allow font
> subsetting or extension on FreeType made by other people that allow
> font subsetting ?

What about the xpdf library, as used e.g. in pdfTeX?  An even better
subsetting engine is in dvipdfmx.

> How stable is the (private) structure of FreeType.  Can we implement
> our own subset code on top of the parsing code used in FreeType
> without having to rewrite it every time we want to upgrade to a more
> recent version of FreeType?

Nothing is guaranteed.  The private structure is -- private.


    Werner