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Re: [Devel] FT_Face_GetAdvancesFunc
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Devel] FT_Face_GetAdvancesFunc |
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Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:19:59 +0100 (CET) |
> > Good questions. David, what was the intention to add this field?
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> It was to provide a function that would be capable of returning the
> glyph advances in _font_units_ of a given _range_ of glyphs. This
> being much faster than loading each glyph individually.
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> Basically, the idea is to be able to perform device-independent text
> layout without loading a single glyph image.
I've improved the documentation in the source code.
Werner