Re: [Freetype] difference appearance in ftview and ftstring

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I try to use freetype to show some string. But I find the ftstring
> demo doesn't show Chinese character as good as ftview.
>
> 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?

Press the `b' key in ftview and you get the same `bad' results.
Reason: simsun contains embedded bitmaps which ftview uses by default.
If you look closely, the rendering of the two glyphs in ftview and
ftstring is different.  ftstring can't use embedded bitmaps since it
will rotate the string.


    Werner