Reading more:

1. I'm not sure the modifiable palettes are a good idea.

2. Default foreground color of black makes more sense to me.  Who reads
white?

3. "palette_types" would have been better called "palette_flags", given
that that's what is in the spec.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I haven't got time to fully review the API. But just taking a look now, in
> the example in freetype.h:
>    *     if ( palette && layer_glyph_index )
>    *     {
>    *       do
>    *       {
>    *         FT_Color  layer_color = palette[layer_color_index];
>    *
>    *
>    *         // Load and render glyph `layer_glyph_index', then
>    *         // blend resulting pixmap with previously created pixmaps.
>    *
>    *       } while ( ( layer_glyph_index =
>    *                     FT_Get_Color_Glyph_Layer( face,
>    *                                               glyph_index,
>    *                                               &layer_color_index,
>    *                                               &iterator ) ) != 0 );
>    *     }
>
> First, I think the use of a FT_LayerIterator type is unnecessary. A single
> index could have done.
>
> Second, the use of 0 return value to signify end of iteration is
> problematic given that 0 is a valid glyph index that can appear in the
> layers itself.
>
> Third, "palette[layer_color_index]" is recipe for invalid memory access.
> Let alone that it does not handle the foreground color magic number 0xFFFF.
>
> b
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >> the CPAL/COLR interface is now implemented and committed to git.
>> >> However, it is still mainly untested; I'm working on it the next
>> >> days – be warned that there might be issues.
>> >
>> > If I combine FT_LOAD_COLOR and FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD, should I get LCD
>> > optimized results with separate alpha used for each color channel?
>>
>> I don't understand the question.  The BGRA format only supports a single
>> alpha for the three color channels...
>>
>> > I would love to have FT_LOAD_COLOR_STRAIGHT for non-premultiplied
>> > output.
>>
>> Do we really need that?  Using `FT_Get_Color_Glyph_Layer' in
>> combination with `FT_Palette_Select' you can easily extract the colors
>> and do the blending appropriate blending function outside of FreeType.
>>
>>
>>     Werner
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>
>
>
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>



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