Re: [ft-devel] FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT and FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Just to follow up a bit, it appears that part of my problem was my
> choice of flags to "FT_Load_Glyph" — since I wanted the glyph path
> in font units, I passed in "FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE |
> FT_LOAD_IGNORE_TRANSFORM".  It appears, however, that this ended up
> by-passing the hinter, and so my glyph paths were incorrect.  I'm
> not sure whether this is by design, however.

This is by design.  Font hinting is *always* bound to a given PPEM
value -- how shall FreeType do correct hinting with out knowing the
relationship between font dimensions and the pixel grid?


    Werner