[cl-pdf-devel] Unicode support feedback needed

[Marc Battyani]

Dmitriy Ivanov <divanov at aha.ru> wrote:
> "Marc Battyani" <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> wrote:
>
> | About the ttf2pt1 utility. As we just use it to extract the encoding
> | and the char metrics, a much better way would be to rewrite it in Lisp.
> | IIRC, a long time ago, Zach Beane have written cl-truetype to extract
> | the Bezier curves of a font. I will look at it to see if it can be used
> | instead of a separated utility.
>
> IMHO, to do font subsetting, CL-PDF cannot dispense with a font parsing
> function in Lisp :-(.

Well, I'm sure it's possible to extract the needed characters and to
re-generate a TTF file in memory.
At least it should be a good thing to avoid the use of the ttf2pt1 utility.
The TTF format is public.

Marc