gdi32[3/3]: if freetype fails try to load manually fonts wrapped as PE resources

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Fri Sep 7 00:12:02 CDT 2007


"Mikolaj Zalewski" <mikolaj at zalewski.pl> wrote:

>> Then there is no point in using FreeType for loading font files at all,
>> (or adding support for new font file formats to FreeType) since FreeType
>> can load fonts from memory.
>  Do you mean that in AddFontResource I shouldn't try to call 
> WineEngAddFontResourceEx but do only a LoadLibraryEx (that won't work as 
> at least according to MSDN the parameter to AddFontResource can be a FNT 
> file or a Win16 NE executable) or that in AddFileToList I should not 
> make a distinction between memory and file fonts but always load the 
> font from memory, mmaping it before if necessary?

I mean that we should choose from either leaving the task to FreeType,
or doing the whole job of loading the font files internally in Wine.

-- 
Dmitry.



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