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FreeType font driver for BDF fonts
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Francesco Zappa Nardelli
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<francesco.zappa.nardelli@ens.fr>
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BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format) is a bitmap font format defined by Adobe,
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which is intended to be easily understood by both humans and computers.
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This code implements a BDF driver for the FreeType library, following the
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Adobe Specification V 2.2. The specification of the BDF font format is
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available from Adobe's web site:
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http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf
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Many good bitmap fonts in bdf format come with XFree86 (www.XFree86.org).
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They do not define vertical metrics, because the X Consortium BDF
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specification has removed them.
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The variety of encodings that accompanies bdf fonts appears to encompass the
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small set defined in freetype.h. On the other hand, two properties that
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specify encoding and registry are usually defined in bdf fonts.
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I decided to make these two properties directly accessible, leaving to the
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client application the work of interpreting them. For instance:
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#include FT_INTERNAL_BDF_TYPES_H
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BDF_Public_Face bdfface;
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FT_New_Face( library, ..., &face );
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bdfface = (BDF_Public_Face)face;
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if ( ( bdfface->charset_registry == "ISO10646" ) &&
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( bdfface->charset_encoding == "1" ) )
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Thus the driver always exports `ft_encoding_none' as face->charmap.encoding.
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FT_Get_Char_Index's behavior is unmodified, that is, it converts the ULong
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value given as argument into the corresponding glyph number.
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If the two properties are not available, Adobe Standard Encoding should be
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The driver supports an extension to the BDF format as used in Mark Leisher's
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xmbdfed bitmap font editor. Microsoft's SBIT tool expects bitmap fonts in
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that format for adding anti-aliased them to TrueType fonts. It introduces a
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fourth field to the `SIZE' keyword which gives the bpp value (bits per
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pixel) of the glyph data in the font. Possible values are 1 (the default),
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2 (four gray levels), 4 (16 gray levels), and 8 (256 gray levels). The
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driver returns either a bitmap with 1 bit per pixel or a pixmap with 8bits
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per pixel (using 4, 16, and 256 gray levels, respectively).
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- A font is entirely loaded into memory. Obviously, this is not the Right
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Thing(TM). If you have big fonts I suggest you convert them into PCF
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format (using the bdftopcf utility): the PCF font drive of FreeType can
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perform incremental glyph loading.
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When I have some time, I will implement on-demand glyph parsing.
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- Except for encodings properties, client applications have no visibility of
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the PCF_Face object. This means that applications cannot directly access
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font tables and must trust FreeType.
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- Currently, glyph names are ignored.
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I plan to give full visibility of the BDF_Face object in an upcoming
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revision of the driver, thus implementing also glyph names.
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- As I have never seen a BDF font that defines vertical metrics, vertical
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metrics are (parsed and) discarded. If you own a BDF font that defines
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vertical metrics, please let me know (I will implement them in 5-10
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Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by Francesco Zappa Nardelli
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
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TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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*** Portions of the driver (that is, bdflib.c and bdf.h):
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Copyright 2000 Computing Research Labs, New Mexico State University
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Copyright 2001-2002 Francesco Zappa Nardelli
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
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and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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THE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB OR NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT
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OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR
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THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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This driver is based on excellent Mark Leisher's bdf library. If you
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find something good in this driver you should probably thank him, not