> [...] all text appears to be improperly spaced. The line spacing is > too large. Upon examination the ascent and descent font metrics > appear to be ~50% too large.
Example values, please, with a real font. > I grew up with the understanding that ascent > was typically the distance from the base-line to the top > of the lower case 'd' character and the descent > was typically the distance from the base-line > to the bottom of the lower case 'y' character. > You add a little leading and you have the line-spacing. Read this for a complete understanding of the three different sets of ascender and descender values in TrueType fonts: http://typophile.com/node/13081? > Qt tech-support blames the X11 layers (FontConfig, Truetype etc.) > for providing incorrect font metrics. > > Is this true or are they misinterpreting the numbers? I don't know. Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
