I'm working on a font sub-setter to trim font files bundled in PDF. One heavy table is the 'post' one : it contains a (string) name for every glyph. The wire format is a byte slice where strings are Pascal encoded : [length, data, length, data, etc...]
This format does not allow direct access at a given index, and also makes it harder to remove the unused names.
We already process theses names in the font.NewFont constructor, and I would like to reuse the logic (currently hidden). To do so, this PR moves the parsing to the opentype/tables package, so that we can directly use the tables.PostNames20.Strings field.
There is no change for end users (only the consumers of the low level tables package will be impacted).
I'm working on a font sub-setter to trim font files bundled in PDF. One heavy table is the 'post' one : it contains a (string) name for every glyph. The wire format is a byte slice where strings are Pascal encoded : [length, data, length, data, etc...] This format does not allow direct access at a given index, and also makes it harder to remove the unused names.
We already process theses names in the
font.NewFontconstructor, and I would like to reuse the logic (currently hidden). To do so, this PR moves the parsing to theopentype/tablespackage, so that we can directly use thetables.PostNames20.Stringsfield.There is no change for end users (only the consumers of the low level
tablespackage will be impacted).