[Devel] Re: CFF problems

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Blinn, Eric W wrote:

> 
> > >>  Even with the possibility of a negative left side bearing 
> > >>  in mind, I don't doesn't appear to be the intent with CFF 
> > >>  fonts like the one I provided. I haven't tried your t2parse 
> > >>  fixes yet (will be doing that shortly). Did it clean up the 
> > >> metrics that lead to the negative left side bearing?
> > > 
> > > No.  I am not sure what is going on there.  I'll be looking into this.
> > 
> Thanks Tom. I'll continue investigating here too. I can fix, or at least get
> around, most of the other problems easily enough, but the left side bearing
> problem is trickier.
> 

I did some more looking at the disassembled CFF font.  It appears that the
entire glyph is below the baseline (the actual charstrings indicate drawing
below the base line), regardless of flipping (flopping?) that the font matrix is
supposed to do.  Maybe that is why the FontMatrix is set up for a horizontal
flip about the baseline.  Still looking...