Striving to finish my FreeType SFNT support studies today, there's a submodule for loading SBit images via the appropriate binary subparsers/decompressors, & encode result in the general FT_Bitmap type. *Plenty* of options have been added by now! Includes support routines for loading image metrics, or to load the bitmap tables.
There's a submodule for loading & parsing various font tables. To be called by it's sibling sourcecode files.
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