Re: [ft-devel] A few more problematic fonts

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 11:45 GMT Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>> Is it difficult to make the bitmap toggle cycle through
>> bitmap+outlinefallback, bitmaponly, outlineonly?
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>Not really, but I don't see the benefit.  It's quite obvious which
>glyphs are represented by a bitmap, isn't it?

It is obvious which is which when everything is working correctly... When it 
isn't, then it takes a while to see which part(s) are broken.

>FreeType currently doesn't honour `gasp' table values automatically,
>delegating it to the application.  It has been suggested from various
>people to change that, but I haven't had found time yet to think about
>possibilities how to implement that.

It may not even be a desirable thing to do - at least it appears from some of 
these issues that bitmaps are either used (without good outline data) or 
ignored.