Hello Peter,
welcome to FreeType! > I am interested in participating in the project 'Integrate VFlib's > TeX font support into FreeType'. Nice! > I have an in-depth knowledge of font formats (Type1, WOFF, and > OpenType). I am also proficient in TeX/LaTeX and very familiar with > its file formats such as DVI, TFM, and VF, and have knowledge of its > PK raster format. I have written a Java program that converts a DVI > to SVG and a C++ program that converts a DVI to PDF. I am planning > to release them as open source. Sounds great! > Here's how I plan to approach this. If you want to integrate VFLIB > into FreeType just to be able to handle the fonts supported by > VFLIB, then my proposal is to convert the PK format into a raster > font supported by FreeType. (Note that VFLIB also uses FreeType to > handle vector fonts.) Alternatively, I am planning to create a > VFLIB module that can be called by FreeType when the latter needs to > handle TeX's bitmap format. Preferably, I prefer the former. To find out a good route can be part of the project. > I would like to discuss more of this in an interview. Looking > forward to hearing from you. No time for that right now, sorry. Note that the deadline is today in two hours (18:00 UTC)! If you want to submit, you have to hurry :-) Werner
