Re: [Devel] freetype stroker

[David Turner]

Hello Gordon,

Gordon Childs wrote:
> Hi and congratulations on such a brilliant font library.
>
> I'm using freetype2.1.4rc2 to fill and stroke arbitrary bezier paths.
>
> The filling works perfectly, but when I stroke some of the same curves  
> the stroking code freaks out, and inserts lines of varying thickness that arc off to 
> infinity in random directions. I been able to isolate one small example that causes the problem, that 
> works if I scale the curve a little. The curve in question appears to have a slight cusp on 
> one edge, but in any case it is closed, so I'm not sure why this is happening.

> Does this ring any bells or should I dig up more info, like a dump 
> outline, before and after?
Strange. Could you send a small example that shows off this behaviour.
All I need is the content of the FT_Outline structure that cannot be
properly stroked. Of course, example source code is welcomed too...

Also, did you try that with 2.1.4 ?

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


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