[CCed to the freetype mailing list] > I want to modify Juce to use Freetype to extract glyph outlines. > Juce is a multiplatform GUI toolkit with some pretty nice features, > see http://rawmaterialsoftware.com/
Currently, I get an error while accessing this page... > Does hinting affect the outlines only? In other words, is it > sufficient to set the font height in Freetype and extract glyph > curves, or do I have to use Freetype to render the curves to a > bitmap? > > Or, put another way, does all of the hinting activity occur in the > vector representation, or are there special things that happy during > the conversion to rasterization? All hinting moves points, so your assumption is correct: Nothing special happens during rasterization (except dropout control, if at all). Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype