CBLC — Color Bitmap Location Table (OpenType 1.8.1)
Table structure
The 'CBLC' table provides embedded bitmap locators. It is used together with the 'CBDT' table, which provides embedded, color bitmap glyph data. The formats of these two tables are backward compatible with the 'EBDT' and 'EBLC' tables used for embedded monochrome and grayscale bitmaps.
The 'CBLC' table begins with a header containing the table version and number of strikes.
cblcHeader
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| uint16 | majorVersion | Major version of the 'CBLC' table, = 3. |
| uint16 | minorVersion | Minor version of the 'CBLC' table, = 0. |
| uint32 | numsizes | Number of bitmapSizeTables |
Note that the first version of the 'CBLC' table is 3.0.
The cblcHeader is followed immediately by the bitmapSizeTable array(s). The numSizes in the cblcHeader indicates the number of bitmapSizeTables in the array. Each strike is defined by one bitmapSizeTable.
bitmapSizeTable
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Offset32 | indexSubTableArrayOffset | Offset to index subtable from beginning of 'CBLC'. |
| uint32 | indexTablesSize | number of bytes in corresponding index subtables and array |
| uint32 | numberofIndexSubTables | an index subtable for each range or format change |
| uint32 | colorRef | not used; set to 0. |
| sbitLineMetrics | Hori | line metrics for text rendered horizontally |
| sbitLineMetrics | Vert | line metrics for text rendered vertically |
| uint16 | startGlyphIndex | lowest glyph index for this size |
| uint16 | endGlyphIndex | highest glyph index for this size |
| uint8 | ppemX | horizontal pixels per Em |
| uint8 | ppemY | vertical pixels per Em |
| uint8 | bitDepth | In addtition to already defined bitDepth values 1, 2, 4, and 8 supported by existing implementations, the value of 32 is used to identify color bitmaps with 8 bit per pixel RGBA channels |
| int8 | Flags | vertical or horizontal (see bitmapFlags) |
The indexSubTableArrayOffset is the offset from the beginning of the 'CBLC' table to the indexSubTableArray. Each strike has one of these arrays to support various formats and discontiguous ranges of bitmaps. The indexTablesSize is the total number of bytes in the indexSubTableArray and the associated indexSubTables. The numberOfIndexSubTables is a count of the indexSubTables for this strike.
The rest of the 'CBLC' table structure is identical to one already defined for 'EBLC'.
OpenType specification