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

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi,

>
> 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
> called `roex' which is also part of the `mftoeps' package (so says the
> readme file -- I haven't used either package.]  Not being able to
> solve this problem was one of the reasons that I've stopped working on
> ttf2pfb.  Does somebody know whether ttf2pt1 handles this gracefully?
>

Nope.  I just tried with times.ttf and looked at the resulting PFA file in
FontLab.  The Aring glyph has overlapping paths...  This was with ttf2pt1 3.3.2.

Tom