Hello Brady, did you try loading the glyph with the FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_METRICS flag ? I believe it should solve your problem
Hope this helps, - David Turner - The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org) On Thu, 3 May 2007 08:17:52 -0700, "Brady Duga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wanted to give the caching code in FreeType a whirl (seemed like a > better idea then writing my own), but I am having some trouble > figuring out how to get all the data I need out of it. Originally, I > was just loading every glyph I needed when I needed it. I would > render it if I was drawing, otherwise I would just load it to get its > metrics. In that scenario, I would use the metrics exposed by the > glyph slot, which has vertical metrics when they are available in the > font. That all works, but when I look at using the cache, I see I get > back a glyph, not a glyph slot. The glyph itself does not seem to > have vertical metrics. Specifically, there is no vertical advance, > just a generic "advance" which seems to correspond to the horizontal. > Is there a way to get the vertical metrics as well? Or should I load > (but not render) the glyph to get the metrics, then grab the bitmap > from the cache when I want render the text? > > --Brady > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > Freetype@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
