Re: [ft-devel] patch requested for freetype2/internal header usage (using font_bbox)

[Chia-I Wu]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:19:02PM +0800, Chia-I Wu wrote:
> The values given in the PFB are raw.  They should be transformed for use
> in face->bbox.  Yet direct application of the transformations to the
> FontBBox is wrong.  The transformations should be applied to each
> glyph's bbox and the FontBBox should be recalculated.
> 
> As this is not affordable, maybe we should document this and provide
> some means for access to FontMatrix.
Or, the transformed values are available from an AFM too.  We can make
use of it.

There are also some other interested fields like `Ascender' and
`Descender' which I would like to add support to.

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Regards,
olv