Bug 223992

Summary: incremental loading for CIDFontType 2 and TrueType fonts
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Jack Moffitt <jack>
Component: PS InterpreterAssignee: Ray Johnston <ray.johnston>
Status: NOTIFIED LATER    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: Word Size: ---

Description Jack Moffitt 2000-11-30 16:13:14 UTC
Originally reported by: hideyuki@users.sourceforge.net
Entire TrueType outline data in CIDFontType 2 and TrueType fonts are loaded into memory at once.  Incremental loading of the outline data is indispensable for practical use of Asian fonts.
Comment 1 L. Peter Deutsch 2000-11-30 19:26:14 UTC
Comment originally by lpd@users.sourceforge.net
I suggest that anyone who would like to work on this project start by looking at how CIDFontType 0 fonts do incremental loading (lib/gs_cidfn.ps and src/zfcid0.c). I suspect that much of this code can be also be used with CIDFontType 2 and TrueType fonts.
Comment 2 L. Peter Deutsch 2000-11-30 22:09:59 UTC
Comment originally by lpd@users.sourceforge.net
There is one other type of CID-keyed font that should also be loaded incrementally: CFF CIDFontType0, i.e., a CIDFontType 0 font represented using the compact binary CFF format. This is important because this is one of the two variants of Asian OpenType fonts (the other is essentially the same as TrueType). Ghostscript already supports both of these OpenType variants, but not with incremental loading.
Comment 3 L. Peter Deutsch 2000-12-31 12:00:47 UTC
Comment originally by lpd@users.sourceforge.net
This topic is being discussed on the gs-devel mailing list. Anyone interested in participating is welcome to go to http://www.ghostscript.com and join the list.
Comment 4 Ray Johnston 2001-04-02 16:15:26 UTC
Comment originally by rayjj@users.sourceforge.net
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We acknowledge that this is a valid issue, but we do not have
resources available to address this at this time.

This problem report has been moved to doc/Issues.htm where it
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By moving this issue to the widely distributed Ghostscript
documentation, we wish to make this issue well known and
solicit help in improving Ghostscript in this area.

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