RE: [ft] Segfault in FT_Get_Name_Index, Solaris 9, FreeType 2.1.8+

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Brown
David, I noticed that the orginal author says he sometimes gets a bus error. This indicates that he is running on a SPARC. On the SPARC architecture, you can only access 16 bit values on 16 bit address boundaries, 32 bit values on 32 bit address boundaries etc. Whilst on an x86

RE: [ft-devel] Re: rounding bug in MS TT rasterizer

2006-04-07 Thread Ian Brown
Hi Werner, this is great news! Thanks for taking the time to investigate this. The (small) difference in character widths and shapes between freetype and MS has always been a pain - and hopefully this goes a long way to reducing that issue. Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ft] Bytecode enabled rendering

2005-11-16 Thread Ian Brown
David, I'm not sure that your arguments below are valid. From what I can divine, ClearType and Avalon are only concerned with sub-pixel rendering and anti-aliasing. The original issue, however, is about non-aliased rendering ... i.e. monochrome rendering. When using freetype to render bitmaps for

RE: [ft] loading CID fonts and CMAPS

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Brown
PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2005 16:19 To: Ian Brown Cc: freetype@nongnu.org; Werner LEMBERG Subject: Re: [ft] loading CID fonts and CMAPS Hi I have a CID font in memory that is immediately followed by a number of CMAPs. If I load the font using FT_New_Memory_Face then the CMAPs do not seem