[Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

Brendan Ferguson drsassafras at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 05:12:12 PST 2008


On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Ed Trager wrote:

> Hi, Brendan,
>
> 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.
>
> - Ed

This is not really my area of expertise. I was primarily a php  
programmer who made websites, content management systems and such.  
Also did website design using DHTML and Usability.

The extent of unix i know is to get my web servers up and running on  
my own boxes.

Brendan


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