Re: Fix! Well, almost. (was: Re: Bugs, bugs, bugs.)

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi,

> 
> The above analysis was (of course) wrong... It was a sythetic font. I've
> just committed three simple patches to the z1 driver: synthetic fonts now
> get rendered! (Or at least, the few I have here pass through unharmed...)
> 

Most fonts with Oblique in there name are synthetic fonts.

> HOWEVER, although the correct (obliqueing) /FontMatrix is read correctly,
> it does not seem to be used, even though the following lines from
> Z1_Load_Glyph() do get executed:
> 
>         /* apply the font matrix */
>         FT_Outline_Transform( &glyph->root.outline,
>                               &face->type1.font_matrix );
> 
> (and face->type1.font_matrix _does_ contain the correct matrix.)
> 

The last time I read the code, the FontMatrix was taking only the
first four entries (not all six).  Has this changed?

Tom