Re: [Devel] Glyph loading fails with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING

[Scott Long]

On 24 Jan 2003 16:59:50 +0000
 "Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Before giving up, I tried to do a simple experiment: remove the 
> load
> flag:
>
> -       error = FT_Load_Char(face, chr, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING);
> +       error = FT_Load_Char(face, chr, 0);
>
> Then it worked! However, rendering sucks completely since I'm using a
> char size of 1 pixel and scale to the required size. This must be a 
> bug
> in freetype (2.1.3); I makes no sense to have a glyph available only 
> if
> you specify hinting.

I wouldn't blame Freetype immediately. I have seen fonts with glyphs 
that are produced almost entirely by hinting. This seems to be 
purposeful, but I don't understand why anyone would do it. We have an 
example of a Chinese font with some glyphs that don't render correctly 
(either they are blank or look entirely different) without bytecode 
hinting enabled.

Scott Long
SwiftView, Inc. http://www.swiftview.com