Re: [ft-devel] Determining the size of space character

[Russell Shaw]

Ivan Tarapov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am involved in a project that uses FLTK+microwindows on a linux-based 
> system. We use freetype 2.2.1 for rendering of ttf fonts. I have been 
> struggling for a long time to get it to determine the size in pixels of 
> the passed string correctly. What I dug up is this:
>
> Microwindows ultimately calls FT_Glyph_Get_CBox to determine the CBox 
> for the character and calculates its size accordingly. It doesn’t work 
> for space character. The CBox for space character turns out to be filled 
> with zeroes, hence wrong pixelsize for the string. FT_Glyph_Get_CBox in 
> its turn calls ft_outline_glyph_bbox which issues a call to 
> FT_Outline_Get_CBox which does the calculations. However the 
> calculations are based on the outline->n_points field, which is zero for 
> the space character. This seems like a bug to me. Or maybe there is a 
> workaround for this?

There was a bug in 2.2.1 to do with space characters that is fixed in cvs.
Try freetype from cvs.