Avar2 support in font identification and contour variations / situations where coords are provided

[drott]

In https://docs.rs/read-fonts/latest/read_fonts/tables/avar/type.Avar.html#method.version it says that Major version is set to 1.

1. For identification of avar2 fonts in Blink it would be useful if this API would be able to return 2 for avar2 fonts.

2. For applying axis variations and retrieving paths in Skrifa, Glyph::draw, and in situations where normalized coords are provided, Skrifa would need to know how to apply avar2 axes.

CC @behdad

[dfrg]

I believe it should currently report version 2 if the table specifies that so identification will work. The actual application of avar2 is not done yet but that should be a relatively small patch. I think it’s just detecting the IVS and applying a delta to each coord using the avar1 adjusted coord set.

edit: this code has recently moved to read-fonts (

fontations/read-fonts/src/tables/fvar.rs

Line 42 in 13d90b8

pub fn user_to_normalized(

) so allocation of the additional temporary storage will be a bit tricky. I’d like to use the stack for this when possible with a fallback to heap if necessary and that means taking an unconditional dependency on the alloc crate.

[behdad]

Yeah, applying the ItemVariationStore only. It's this code:
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/f35b0a63b1c30923e91b612399c4387e64432b91/src/hb-ot-var-avar-table.hh#L318-L347