dynamic .fon conversion

[Huw D M Davies]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, David Chow wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to Wine develop, I wish to investigate and join, the following
> > is the topic I am interested in.
> >
> > Does Wine develpers planning to implement .fon files support? I mean
> > loading it dynamically? Since Xfree86 4 supports true type fonts, and
> > most of the Linux distribution are now using XFree86-4 . We can actually
> > load these fonts into the Xsever dynamically at run time providing we
> > have some dynamic conversion between the font files.
> 
>    This issue was raised during WineConf. Wine is now able to use
> FreeType to perform client-side rendering of TrueType fonts. This
> results in fonts that look really great, and you can even get
> anti-aliasing.
>    Now, IIRC (Huw will correct me if I'm wrong), it was said that
> FreeType also supports Postscript fonts and .fon fonts. So the way to go
> would be to extend Wine's FreeType support to .fon fonts.

Yes, that's the idea.  At the moment we ignore any font that isn't
sfnt format (that's anything that isn't TT or OpenType).  The issues
are that we need to implement something sensible for GetGlyphOutline
and GetOutlineTextMetrics for bitmap or Type1 fonts.

Huw.