ref: 6c5522c6f843532e7a1e86f79856d703349f5e94
parent: ca46bc0cf22eb72e9fdc6782337715d0ac2bbd9e
author: Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>
date: Sat Feb 19 08:37:07 EST 2022
* src/bdf/README: Updated.
--- a/src/bdf/README
+++ b/src/bdf/README
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
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
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
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+[This section is out of date, retained for historical reasons.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