don't recalc a number of things then TTFont().recalcBBoxes is off. This allows us to compact glyphs right after they've been parsed from XML, which should greatly reduce memory usage, and therefore should speedup compiling large fonts.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/fonttools/code/trunk@31 4cde692c-a291-49d1-8350-778aa11640f8

Lib/fontTools/ttLib/__init__.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Dumping 'prep' table...
 """
 
 __author__ = "Just van Rossum, just@letterror.com"
-__version__ = "$Id: __init__.py,v 1.5 1999-12-18 21:32:40 Just Exp $"
+__version__ = "$Id: __init__.py,v 1.6 1999-12-23 14:44:02 Just Exp $"
 __release__ = "1.0a6"
 
 import os
@@ -82,9 +82,14 @@ class TTFont:
 		argument: this is the way to create a new empty font. 
 		In this case you can optionally supply the 'sfntVersion' argument.
 		
-		If the recalcBBoxes argument is false, glyph bounding boxes will 
-		not be recalculated, but taken as they were. This is needed with
-		certain kinds of CJK fonts (ask Werner Lemberg ;-).
+		If the recalcBBoxes argument is false, a number of things will not
+		be recalculated upon save/compile:
+			- glyph bounding boxes 
+			- maxp font bounding box
+			- hhea min/max values
+		This is needed with certain kinds of CJK fonts (ask Werner Lemberg ;-)
+		but also limits memory use greatly, which should have some impact on
+		the time needed to compile large fonts.
 		"""
 		
 		import sfnt

Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_g_l_y_f.py

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class table__g_l_y_f(DefaultTable.DefaultTable):
 		dataList = []
 		recalcBBoxes = ttFont.recalcBBoxes
 		for glyphName in ttFont.getGlyphOrder():
-			glyph = self[glyphName]
+			glyph = self.glyphs[glyphName]
 			glyphData = glyph.compile(self, recalcBBoxes)
 			locations.append(currentLocation)
 			currentLocation = currentLocation + len(glyphData)
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ class table__g_l_y_f(DefaultTable.DefaultTable):
 				if type(element) == types.StringType:
 					continue
 				glyph.fromXML(element, ttFont)
+			if not ttFont.recalcBBoxes:
+				glyph.compact(self, 0)
 	
 	def setGlyphOrder(self, glyphOrder):
 		self.glyphOrder = glyphOrder
@@ -137,12 +139,6 @@ class table__g_l_y_f(DefaultTable.DefaultTable):
 		# XXX optimize with reverse dict!!!
 		return self.glyphOrder.index(glyphName)
 	
-	#def keys(self):
-	#	return self.glyphOrder[:]
-	#
-	#def has_key(self, glyphName):
-	#	return self.glyphs.has_key(glyphName)
-	#
 	def __getitem__(self, glyphName):
 		glyph = self.glyphs[glyphName]
 		glyph.expand(self)
@@ -215,6 +211,10 @@ class Glyph:
 		if not hasattr(self, "data"):
 			# already unpacked
 			return
+		if not self.data:
+			# empty char
+			self.numberOfContours = 0
+			return
 		dummy, data = sstruct.unpack2(glyphHeaderFormat, self.data, self)
 		del self.data
 		if self.numberOfContours == -1:

Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_h_h_e_a.py

@@ -31,14 +31,13 @@ class table__h_h_e_a(DefaultTable.DefaultTable):
 		sstruct.unpack(hheaFormat, data, self)
 	
 	def compile(self, ttFont):
+		if ttFont.isLoaded('glyf') and ttFont.recalcBBoxes:
 			self.recalc(ttFont)
 		return sstruct.pack(hheaFormat, self)
 	
 	def recalc(self, ttFont):
 		hmtxTable = ttFont['hmtx']
 		if ttFont.has_key('glyf'):
-			if not ttFont.isLoaded('glyf'):
-				return
 			glyfTable = ttFont['glyf']
 			advanceWidthMax = -100000    # arbitrary big negative number
 			minLeftSideBearing = 100000  # arbitrary big number

Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_m_a_x_p.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class table__m_a_x_p(DefaultTable.DefaultTable):
 	
 	def compile(self, ttFont):
 		if ttFont.has_key('glyf'):
-			if ttFont.isLoaded('glyf'):
+			if ttFont.isLoaded('glyf') and ttFont.recalcBBoxes:
 				self.recalc(ttFont)
 		else:
 			pass # XXX CFF!!!