> it appears, that it's not possible to let freetype autohint rotated
> text.
Yep.
> My question is why this ist he case.
Just remember what autohinting actually does: It tries to align stems
and other features along a grid. If you have rotated text, there is
no grid to align to.
> In our application we're only dealing with rotations of 90° steps,
> though.
This is a special case, not handled by lazyness.
> I'm not looking for a solution, just some information about why the
> autohinter currently only works for unrotated text.
Maybe there is a volunteer which wants to make the autohinter support
text rotated by 90°, 180°, and 270°?
Werner
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