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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > The values given in the PFB are raw.

Hmm, in PFBs there aren't bbox values at all.  You probably mean the
bbox derived from the glyph's outline, right?

> > 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.

Yes.

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

Just go on!


    Werner