Re: [ft-devel] FT_Glyphslot_Embolden is broken at sometimes.

[sunmoon1997]

Thanks all  you guys, but it sounds bad if  it's unable to work around
this in freetype.

Chia-I Wu wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:00:09PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>>>    FT_Glyphslot_Embolden works at most of time, but sometimes it
>>>doesn't(see attachment).  To run the testcase, you need simsun.ttc
>>>from windows.  Any comments?
>>>      
>>>
>>Which FT version?
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>>Unfortunately, I don't have simsun.ttc so I can't test it.  Chai-I?
>>
>>BTW, I don't have cairo either -- can you reproduce the problem with
>>ftview from the ft2demos package, using the current CVS?
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>The character shown in the .png (U+60CA) has a contour of width 0,
>namely all points have same x value (bug?), in the left top corner.
>It misleads FT_Outline_Get_Orientation.  Thus instead of emboldened,
>each stroke got shrinked.
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>Similar issues have already been seen in some free traditional Chinese
>fonts.  They have glyphs consisting of components of different
>orientations.  I think it's a bug of the font and since those fonts are
>actively maintained, I reported the issue to the font authors, after
>failed to work around this in freetype.
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