Hi Phil,
Just wondering if anyone has any comments/bugs/patches etc on the
freetype replacement
for the encumbered font rasteriser that we finally put out last week?
I've poked around this code a bit over the last couple of days, and it's
quite nice - thanks for releasing this! Creating the new FontScaler
interface has really cleaned things up from the Java end, too.
I haven't had a chance to go over it in much detail (I've been busy with
other non-openjdk work), but the only bug I've found so far is in
positioning rotated text. The jfig editor
(http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/) is a good
test; with the new font code, glyphs are spaced too tightly and the
baseline is uneven when a rotation is set.
I'm also curious as to why getGlyphOutline retrieves a Freetype outline
and iterates though it "manually", rather than defining simple callback
functions and letting Freetype do the work via FT_Outline_Decompose -
but functionally it should be the same.
Otherwise, the Freetype work here is quite similar to what we've done in
IcedTea to get font support, which is a good sign - we're much more
likely to both be right than both be wrong ;-)
I'll hopefully have some time to look over this in more detail and give
some more specific comments soon, but it's been really exciting to see
this drop - thanks!
Regards,
Francis
