Re: [ft-devel] FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT and FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT

[Derek Clegg]

I apologize in advance for the relatively large size of this message.

On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Can FreeType return glyph paths from mingliu and other fonts which
> > need the bytecode interpreter for positioning?
>
> This should be possible.  It would be illogical otherwise.
>
> > In my experiments, I've failed to get correct results, but that may
> > be my error — I may not have supplied the correct combination of
> > build parameters and flags.
>
> Can you show us what you've tried.  Maybe there's a bug in FreeType
> lurking around...
>
>     Werner

Here's a font that illustrates the problem; it's a font subset from a  
PDF file:

EPPGLH+DFHSMincho-W3-WIN-RKSJ-H.ttf
Description: Binary data

Here's how glyph 1915 (for example) appears when the PDF file is  
drawn by Acrobat:

Here's how it looks when drawn by filling the outline obtained from  
FreeType:

This appears to happen because the glyph outline isn't correct.   
Here's what ftgrid shows, using the current FreeType CVS sources,  
unmodified:

It looks like the positioning hints aren't applied to the glyph outline.

Are there some additional flags I need to supply, or is this a bug?   
Right now, I'm just using "ftgrid" to examine the glyph outlines, not  
my own code.

Thanks for any pointers or advice.

Derek