*" withnative (TrueType) hinting enabled."*

How do I enable it?

Also,do I have to use FT_FACE_FLAG_TRICKY   ?


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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> FreeType doesn't take care of localization in any way.  You need a
> >> higher-level library like Pango or ICU to activate locale handling
> >> (i.e., selecting script and language for OpenType features).
> >
> > Thanks for that info.  Though I see in the docs glyph-to-script-map
>
> (a) This is for the auto-hinter only.
>
> (b) Unfortunately, it is currently unmaintained.  It's also out of
>     date, since I have added a large bunch of scripts.
>
> > I have another question regarding Chinese CJK glyph maps.  When I
> > try to read outlines of such a glyph the coordiantes looks weird and
> > when I render the shapes (triangulating it before that) it looks
> > screwed.  [...]
>
> It seems that you are looking at a composite fonts where the subglyphs
> are scaled and shifted with bytecode instructions.
>
> > Is there a way to handle this type of maps with Freetype to get
> > correct path?
>
> Please don't use the word `map'.  It's rather called `outline data'.
>
> We call such fonts `tricky', which you can test with the
> `FT_IS_TRICKY' macro.  To get outlines of such a font that can be
> processed further, you should render the glyphs with calls to
> FT_Load_Glyph at the font's ppem resolution (e.g., 1024 or 2048), with
> native (TrueType) hinting enabled.
>
>
>     Werner
>



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