Summary: | bitstream font system not supported | ||
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Product: | Ghostscript | Reporter: | Henry Stiles <henry.stiles> |
Component: | Font API | Assignee: | Chris Liddell (chrisl) <chris.liddell> |
Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | christinedelight.top85, ken.sharp, tor.andersson |
Priority: | P4 | ||
Version: | master | ||
Hardware: | Macintosh | ||
OS: | All | ||
Customer: | Word Size: | --- |
Description
Henry Stiles
2009-04-27 14:32:16 UTC
It makes sense as a requirement for the design work, so I'm fine with the bug. Thanks for the reminder. The end user deliverable is better support for alternate font renders, but you're correct that we've been focussed on the internal advantages of separating font parsing at the interpreter level from rendering through the graphics library. Outline support has been added in revision 11259. This is little more than a proof of possibility, the current code only works with type 1 PostScript fonts. However addition of other font types should be reasonably possible from this starting point. Re-assigning this one to Chris for future enhancements. I don't believe we need to track this in bugzilla any more. In 10 years, we've never had a request for Bitstream. We already have Freetype and UFST, and a skeleton for Bitstream, and completing it shouldn't be more complex than the existing two. If a credible requirement for it arises, we'll finish the work. But as of now, I'm closing this. |