[ft-devel] RE: FreeType error reading CJKV font outlines.

[Ivan Nincic]

Please disregard my last email. I just realized that I was loading font
outlines with FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE which implies FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.

Is it possible to determine in advance that a font is 'tricky' and that
hinting needs to be applied. Also I am not sure how to keep glyph outlines
in font units after hinting is applied?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Nincic [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:24 PM
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Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: FreeType error reading CJKV font outlines.

Hello,

I noticed that FT 2.7 is supposed to `just work' with Asian fonts, like
MingLiU, which cannot properly be  loaded without a bytecode interpreter. 

Attached are couple of subsetted Asian TTF fonts that do not render
properly. These fonts were are extracted from a document. Also attached is
the screenshot showing the problem (the first line of text is rendered using
FreeType to get the outlines, whereas the second line is rendered using
Acrobat Reader). 

Perhaps I missed to declare an extra option or a module? What can be done to
render this type fonts properly?
 
Ian