[Devel] Re: Oblique Type1 fonts leave first glyph roman

[Tom Kacvinsky]

By chance, are these fonts from Y&Y?  We have a good working relationship with
Y&Y, so I can get the fonts from them.  Heck, I might already have them!
Or, since they were given (gratis?) to the XFree86 team, maybe you can send them
to me in a separate email (off-list).

This shouldn't be happening.  The problem before was in the autohinter, and
David already fixed that...

Tom

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Keith Packard wrote:

>
> XFree86 was given six Type1 faces by Bigelow and Holmes, roman and oblique
> for a serif, sans and mono-spaced version in their lucidux style.  When I
> rasterize the oblique versions with FreeType 2.0.1, the first glyph which
> is rasterized is upright rather than oblique.  Here are the matrices from
> the two serifed faces:
>
> % oblique matrix from lcdxro.pfa
> /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0.0002 0.001 0 0] readonly def
>
> % roman matrix from lcdxrr.pfa
> /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0] readonly def
>
> I can't think what I might be doing wrong in using the face that would
> cause this problem.  Also interesting:
>
>       The IBM Type1 rasterizer in the X server works fine.
>
>       The error occurs with either monochrome or grayscale rendering
>
>       It doesn't matter what glyph is rasterized first, even ' ' makes
>       further glyphs work correctly.
>