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[Freetype] Re: Outline vertices


From: Braden McDaniel
Subject: [Freetype] Re: Outline vertices
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:00:35 -0500
User-agent: Pan/0.13.1 (It's always funny until somebody immanentizes the eschaton)

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:11:45 +0100, David Turner wrote:

> Since nearly all your coordinates are multiples of 64, i suppose that
> you're loading hinted outlines through FT_Load_Glyph.

Yes.

> However, your "i" has a size of only 1 pixel, which probably means
> that you're using an extremely small character pixel size. There is
> no way that any of the hinters in FreeType (auto,truetype,postscript)
> can produce anything useful at such low sizes.

Thanks. I'd begun to figure that out last night. I had not set a size.

> Have you tried loading the outlines at different scales, or simply
> with no scaling/hinting with FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE ?

If I use FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE, do I lose any guarantee that the outlines will
be at a consistent scale between glyphs? And between faces?

If so, then I suppose I want to use FT_Set_Char_Size, right?

Braden



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