RE: [Freetype] difference appearance in ftview and ftstring

[Turner David]

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Fu Chen
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 3:14 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Freetype] difference appearance in ftview and ftstring
> 
> 
> Hi!
> I try to use freetype to show some string. But I find the 
> ftstring demo doesn't show Chinese character as good as ftview.
> 

That's normal. Since "ftstring" needs to support rotation, it doesn't
use embedded bitmaps, unlike ftview which displays them when it finds
some. This explains why the latter show "better" glyphs.

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

> for example, there are screen prints of two characters in 
> same height 12 points. Chinese character should always be 
> same size. But in ftstring the two characters have different 
> height and the glyphs are not as pretty as ftview one. So in 
> Chinese people's eyes, the ftview one is more better. 
> I can't understand why they have different appearance. I read 
> the code but still not familiar with these functions. 
> Any idea?
> 
> 

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