Hello Sir,
As I have mailed earlier also,I want to add support for 'SVG'
OpenType table to render color fonts in Freetype 2 project.
I had also discussed about *librsvg* by GNOME as potential library that can
fit the job.Although as told by Werner Sir it is porting to rust but still
its API is in C.
Freetype is most widely used font renderer and its support for 'SVG' will
make it much more diverse and future ready.
We can distinguish fonts that use OpenType 'SVG' fonts based on the fact
that 'SVG' fonts and their glyphs are XML-based.They incorporate multiple
Colors and gradients in a single glyph.Whether to edit both Glyph
positioning(otvgpos.c) and substitution tables(otvgsub.c) or only
positioning,I want to know about this.
And rather than creating a new module editing API stuff by defining
function to transfer data from font table to the external library and
bitmap output back to Freetype can prove to work.
I will like to work on this great project during GSoC 2019.
Sir, please suggest me how can i test Freetype 2 to analyse the changes.And
I will welcome any other suggestions.
And Congratulations to Freetype for again getting selected in GSoC.
- Alekh
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 9:13 pm Werner LEMBERG, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Alekh!
>
>
> > I am a Computer Science Engineering student interested to work on
> > the the project to *add support for 'SVG' OpenType table to render
> > color fonts*. [...]
>
> Great!
>
> > I want to evaluate the various SVG libraries which are freely
> > available to check which fits the job. And work on its integration
> > into *freetype*. I will like to work on this as my GSoC 2019
> > project.
>
> Hold your horses! In the end of February we know whether FreeType
> will participate at GSoC.
>
> > But i will still like to work on the development of *freetype
> > *irrespective of whether it is my GSoC project or not.
>
> Nothing prevents you from starting your work immediately :-) So please
> get acquainted with the topic, read the OpenType specification, etc.,
> etc. However, please don't expect as much as guidance as a GSoC
> mentor can give.
>
>
> Werner
>
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