Re: [Devel] Curves that make you hmmmmm....

[Angus Duggan]

Werner LEMBERG writes:
>AFAIK, there is no problem in FT: For rendering, it works without
>problems (check the famous `Aring' glyph in times.ttf).  Of course,
>converting to real outlines is not implemented; it would be necessary
>to do topological analysis to merge overlapping paths.  BTW, do you
>have a (free) C implementation to do that?  It would be a very useful
>module for FreeType!  Volunteers?  [I only know a Metafont package

There are many polygon clippers that can do union operations on paths. I
think "gpc" may be able to give you the minimal outline. I wrote code to do
just that a couple of months ago, but unfortunately it's not free code.

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