Re: [Devel] Oblique Type1 fonts leave first glyph roman

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I *think* the bug is in the autohinter.  It autohinting is turned off, the 
problem
goes away...

Tom

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> OK, I get this behavior with Lucida Bright Oblique (a B&H font hinted, etc...
> by Y&Y).  ftview doesn't have a problem with the font, but ftstring does.  
> This
> first glyph is indeed rendered upright instead of obliqued.  Hrmmm...
>
> I will look into this.
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> >
> > XFree86 was given six Type1 faces by Bigelow and Holmes, roman and oblique
> > for a serif, sans and mono-spaced version in their lucidux style.  When I
> > rasterize the oblique versions with FreeType 2.0.1, the first glyph which
> > is rasterized is upright rather than oblique.  Here are the matrices from
> > the two serifed faces:
> >
> > % oblique matrix from lcdxro.pfa
> > /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0.0002 0.001 0 0] readonly def
> >
> > % roman matrix from lcdxrr.pfa
> > /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0] readonly def
> >
> > I can't think what I might be doing wrong in using the face that would
> > cause this problem.  Also interesting:
> >
> >     The IBM Type1 rasterizer in the X server works fine.
> >
> >     The error occurs with either monochrome or grayscale rendering
> >
> >     It doesn't matter what glyph is rasterized first, even ' ' makes
> >     further glyphs work correctly.
> >
>