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| author | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2022-02-19 13:37:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2022-02-19 13:37:07 +0100 |
| commit | 6c5522c6f843532e7a1e86f79856d703349f5e94 (patch) | |
| tree | 84d791a7620b6b6c382c0b6c66701a72963a5cdd | |
| parent | ca46bc0cf22eb72e9fdc6782337715d0ac2bbd9e (diff) | |
| download | freetype2-6c5522c6f843532e7a1e86f79856d703349f5e94.tar.gz | |
* src/bdf/README: Updated.
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diff --git a/src/bdf/README b/src/bdf/README index 996ac2d2a..d7cb8c14e 100644 --- a/src/bdf/README +++ b/src/bdf/README @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This code implements a BDF driver for the FreeType library, following the Adobe Specification V 2.2. The specification of the BDF font format is available from Adobe's web site: - https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf + https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf Many good bitmap fonts in bdf format come with XFree86 (www.XFree86.org). They do not define vertical metrics, because the X Consortium BDF @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ specification has removed them. Encodings ********* +[This section is out of date, retained for historical reasons. BDF + properties can be retrieved with `FT_Get_BDF_Property`, character set ID + values with `FT_Get_BDF_Charset_ID`.] + The variety of encodings that accompanies bdf fonts appears to encompass the small set defined in freetype.h. On the other hand, two properties that specify encoding and registry are usually defined in bdf fonts. |