Re: Courier-Oblique

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I found it!  Yay!  Turn off hinting and see what happens.  Obliquing then works
as it should.  So it must be something in the authohinter and/or the hints used
in the base un-obliqued outlines.  Time to learn more about the hinter...

Tom

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> Blargh!  1. We are getting the correct font matrix.  2. FT_Outline_Transform 
> is
> working correctly.
> 
> So, I do not know where the problems are.  I can tell that in T1_Load_Glyph,
> calling FT_Outline_Transform results in the points on the contour being 
> changed.
> Why these changes aren't propogated down the line, I do not know. :(
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> 
> > I take this back:  the font matrix is getting parsed correctly.
> > 
> > So it must be that FT_Outline_Transform isn't obliquing the outlines
> > properly...  I am at a loss here.  Does anyone have a font that uses
> > obliquing and looks fine in ftview?
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Werner,
> > > 
> > > The problem is that we are getting the wrong FontMatrix. I am looking
> > > into the problem right now.  It has something to do with the fact
> > > that Courier-Oblique is a synthetic font, and which FontMatrix do
> > > we choose;  the one from the embedded copy of Courier, or the one
> > > from the top level dictionary?
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a chance to add support for Courier-Oblique and friends?  The
> > > > font loads without problems, but there is no slant...
> > > > 
> > > > Another thing is the display of MM fonts with ftview -- is there a
> > > > chance to display it correctly (say, by selecting the medium values
> > > > for all axes)?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >     Werner
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
>