[Freetype] Hinting & widths (was RE: Patents)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 3:07 PM +0200 5/6/02, Ian Brown wrote:
>         My issue is the generation of PDFs, and the reason we use 
> Freetype is to get the font metrics (the character widths). We 
> actually never use Freetype to RIP a font, only to get the metrics. 
> The problem is that we must have the same metrics as windows 
> returns, and so we need the hinted widths.

	Even that is not going to help you on a different platform, 
since you won't have the EXACT SAME VERSION of the font that was/is 
used on Windows!  There are multiple versions/flavors of Helvetica 
floating around - and even between revs of a given flavor, there can 
be differences in the metrics (hinting not with standing).

	So unless you have the EXACT SAME FONT FILES that the 
document author did, you are NOT guaranteed the same metrics and 
layout - sorry!


Leonard
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