use Perl

• dfont (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  Is there a way to read Mac OS X dfonts with Imager?
  • Re:dfont (Score:1)

    by tonyc (123)

    There's no support there now, though freetype2 does seem to have some functions to handle them.
    
    I'll do some research and see if they can be implemented fairly easily.
    
    The only problem is that Imager tends to work at one face per file, so I'll need to add an extra parameter to select the face to be used.
    • Re:dfont (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      FWIW, dfonts seem to work just fine with GD (I use GD 1.41).
      • Re:dfont (Score:1)

        by tonyc (123)

        It turns out Imager will use a dfont, but you only get access to the first face in the font.

        You need to tell it which driver to use though:

        my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$font, type=>ft2) or die Imager->errstr

        This works mostly because freetype2 is so cool :)

        Now to see if I can figure out why you can only get the first face.
        • Re:dfont (Score:1)

          by tonyc (123)

          If you configure freetype 2 with:

          ./configure --with-old-mac-fonts

          Then you can use the index parameter to access the other faces of a suitcase or dfont.
          • Re:dfont (Score:2)

            by pudge (1)

            What index parameter?
        • Re:dfont (Score:2)

          by pudge (1)

          Hmmm. I'll have to try that out, thanks. I'll let you know how it goes. :-)
        • Re:dfont (Score:1)

          by pudge (1)

          Having problems getting Imager (0.44) with freetype2.

          freetyp2.c:44: error: parse error before "library"
          freetyp2.c:44: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
          freetyp2.c: In function `i_ft2_init':
          freetyp2.c:57: error: `FT_Error' undeclared (first use in this function)
          freetyp2.c:57: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
          freetyp2.c:57: error: for each function it appears in.)
          freetyp2.c:57: error: parse error before "error"
          freetyp2.c:60: error: `error' undeclared (first use in th
          • Re:dfont (Score:2)

            by pudge (1)

            Looks like it was a problem with something in /sw/include. I removed that for compiling freetyp2.c and it worked fine.