On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Werner LEMBERG
<address@hidden> wrote:
> error = FT_Load_Glyph( face, glyph_index, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING);
>
> Family name of the font is --- Arial
> Style name of the font is --- Regular
> bbox = [-1 0 9 9]
>
> *Xmin is still negative.
Yes! I told you in a previous mail that the unhinted coordinate of
the leftmost pixel is NEGATIVE! FreeType always rounds to the
extreme, thus you get -1 and not 0.
> Can you please provide me syntax if i am doing wrong in setting the
> flags. How can i do if i want a MONOCHROME, RENDERED and NO_HINTING
> glyph metrics?
You mean glyph dimensions (the BBox), right? Glyph metrics is the
advance width, for example, and this is independent from the outline.
Again: The only way to get an exact BBox for a given DPI is to render
the glyph!
Werner