[Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Nov 4 01:08:10 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 08:20 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2008/11/3 Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com>:
> >
> > The PHP getId3() library is at http://getid3.sourceforge.net/.  It
> > might be worth looking into how to expand this library to recognize
> > the TTF and OTF file headers, perhaps?  The idea here seems quite
> > similar to what the *Nix "file" command does.  If someone were to look
> > at the *nix "file" command source code, I bet you could fairly easily
> > find a reference to the "magic" file header bytes that are used to
> > detect TTF/OTF files and then add this to the getId3() stuff, assuming
> > that getId3() is well-written.
> 
> Ben Weiner has been looking at ways to extract metadata from font
> files directly, but I think he gave up because he couldn't complete it
> in the time he had to allocate to it. He was looking at the "TTX"
> tools for this, I think.
> 
> Anyway, since none of our files have ID3 tags inside them, it seems to
> me that OFLB can get rid of getID3() and replace it with a PHP wrapper
> around the "file" command, perhaps combined with TTX.

getID3() reads/writes metadata to diff. file formats with standard type
of metadata per format and not just ID3...that is just for mp3.

The project has a bad misleading name ;)

Jon

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