RE: D-Type or FreeType?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:09 AM +0100 11/6/00, Boris Letocha wrote:
>  > Sort of - libart has the pen centred around the vpath, I
> >  think outlined
> >  fonts really should be inset.  comments?
> IMHO it should be centered around center of path...

        I agree.


> so to acomplish your problem use:
> get path from FT.
> now switch to libart :-)
> stroke the path
> calcutate intersection of these two paths and result is what you want ...
	That's EXACTLY what I did (well, minus the last step) at one 
point in a project I was working on.  It seems to work fine and the 
look is acceptable for the VERY few documents that I've found that 
actually use outlined/stroked text.


Leonard
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