Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

Is there an LCD mode which does not grow the image size? No. You need three colour channels for LCD rendering. What is the format of the bitmap memory when FT_PIXEL_MODE_LCD is in place? The docs say 8-bit, but it being 3x as wide suggests maybe 1 byte for each color component? Yes. I

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

In order for sub-pixel rendering to work, if I understand what I read in that link correctly, the R, G, and B values will not be equal, since they're providing the sub-pixels on an LCD screen. Correct. The comment indicates the enabling this flag activates sub-pixel rendering, yet it later

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

So if I do the below: - enable FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING in ftoption.h - call FT_Library_SetLcdFilter with FT_LCD_FILTER_DEFAULT - use FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD when calling FT_Render_Glyph Then, the result of FT_Render_Glyph will be a 24-bit (8 bits for each red,green,blue) color

Re: [ft] mis-rendered o when a j is near

Werner, if you're interested in status updates please let me know, I'll keep you up to date then. :) Please do. Your problem sounds mysterious enough to make me curious. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] diff Pixel height

Where can find about definition of hinted fonts? What it means? Read the OpenType specification. How does it vary in freetype for HINT and NO_HINT? Well, if you set the no-hint flag, no hinting gets applied. However, you have to understand the concept of hinting first... I tried using

Re: [ft] Pixmap from OTF font.

Please stay on the list. Actually, I am develop programmer where i need char definition in structure like that. 1. topleft row 2. col 3. botleft row 4. col 5. width 6. height This has been recently discussed on the mailing list. Please look up the discussion with

Re: [ft] FT_Glyph_Get_CBox inaccuracy

I'm having some trouble computing the bounding box of glyphs. It's possible that I haven't understood the purpose of the FT_Glyph_Get_CBox function. In my understanding by using this function I should get the extreme coordinates of the glyphs, Yes, if you ask for font units. and these

Re: [ft] diff Pixel height

error = FT_Load_Glyph( face, glyph_index, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING); Family name of the font is --- Arial Style name of the font is --- Regular bbox = [-1 0 9 9] *Xmin is still negative. Yes! I told you in a previous mail that the unhinted coordinate of the leftmost pixel is NEGATIVE!

Re: [ft] height of the glyph

Is Width and height of the glyph is correct if i do the following?? No. You can't get the exact width and height of a glyph at a specific DPI using the bounding box (to be more precise, if the DPI is smaller than the font's `units per em' value, used by the font designer to create the glyph).

Re: [ft] diff Pixel height

So,You mean irrespective of what ever we do...the BBox is Always negative. For this glyph, yes. In your previous reply you said, the only way to get the exact metrics is to render _all_ glyphs. Sorry for being ambiguous. It either means: . To get the smallest global bounding box of a

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

I've found that this small hack/patch does amazing things toward a CT-like rendering, when TT interpreter is enabled at compile time: [...] Very nice. Do you plan to invest more time to work on this? Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] (no subject)

i want to get the chinese character bitmap by freetype for overlaying it on video flow i set the char size in use of FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face,width,height) but different chinese character corresponding different width and height. or it will be Distortious . can't i set the uniform size for

Re: [ft] configuring freetype for only truetype support

im trying to compile a compact version of freetype 2.3.9 with only truetype support. [...] How can i find out which modules I need to include to only support truetype? See docs/INSTALL.ANY. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] bitmap buffer length

I would like to know how much is the bitmap buffer size. Actually i am calculating like below said, if((bitmap-width/8) 1) size = 2*bitmap-rows ; else size = ((bitmap-width /8)+1)*bitmap-rows; But for few characters i am getting it perfect,but for few

Re: [ft] configuring freetype for only truetype support

Hmm, docs/CUSTOMIZE recommends to edit ftmodule.h directly, but the description of each line is not so easy in comparison with module.cfg. Any improvements are highly welcomed. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

Nice! Please don't forget to document, probably with screenshots, which code changes cause which improvements, and which cause degradations. I will take screenshots as well as comment (at least temporarily) the code in the patch. I feel kind of embarrassed posting these hacky patches of

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

Good question. I'll ask it on the OpenType mailing list. Here is a long discussion which gives some hints why the resolution is increased by a factor of 16. http://typophile.com/node/62675 Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

Point taken. I changed the function names to end in _ttslight instead, and the ENHANCED TT to TT SLIGHT HINTING as that really is what this is. http://www.infinality.net/files/ttinterp.20100307-2.patch Original patch has been removed. This looks very promising! A small aside: I'm not

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

http://www.infinality.net/files/ttinterp.20100310-1.patch Thanks. Will have a look later. Screenshot of the patch in action, with various fonts, in WINE Wordpad. There are artifacts with some fonts / glyphs that will probably have to have TT function calls disabled in order to render

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

A nice option to ftview/ftdiff might be png output! Go forth and add it! However, I rather suggest to produce an image in the PGM image format[*] – you don't need a library for writing such files – which can then be converted to anything else with the Netpbm tools. Werner [*] This is

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

A nice option to ftview/ftdiff might be png output! WL Go forth and add it! However, I rather suggest to produce an WL image in the PGM image format Or ppm, given that each supports sub-pixel. ☺ Yes, I haven't thought of this. Werner ___

[ft] excellent paper on font rasterization

Folks, I recommend to read this paper: A Treatise on Font Rasterisation With an Emphasis on Free Software: http://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation/ It answers a lot of questions which are repeatedly asked on the FreeType mailing lists. Werner

[ft] lack of time

Sorry for not being very responsive currently, especially in handling the various bug reports. I'm very busy at the moment, and it will be so the next time also. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] Decomposing complicated glyphs

In this case, the glyphs/symbols are composed of an arbitrary number of outer polygons, each of which contains an arbitrary number of islands. When I call FT_Outline_Decompose(), it triggers a whole sequence of calls to my moveTo/lineTo callbacks, but it is unclear to me how I'm supposed to

Re: [ft] Modifying/Enhancing the Truetype Interpreter

Sorry for the late response. Another thing I'm struggling with is how to detect whether points have been touched in the non-freedom vector direction during deltaps. Do you have any insights into this, Werner? Can you elaborate? What do you want to achieve? Also, I'm still having a hard

Re: [ft] Using SVG Font Glyph Data In FreeType

I am looking mostly for information on how to convert the path data in the SVG, into something that freetype can understand/interpret. Have a look at example3.cpp from the tutorial: http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/example3.cpp It demonstrates how to fill an

Re: [ft] Using SVG Font Glyph Data In FreeType

If I understand Andy correctly, he'd like to map these primitive outline commands to the corresponding FreeType rules (the FT_outline_Functs structures) and then hand off the set of rules for FreeType to work its magic on. I've had a look at

Re: [ft] Using SVG Font Glyph Data In FreeType

It's trivial for conic and cubic splines, too. You just have to set the proper flags in the `tags' array. I think this is quite well documented. For what it might be worth, below are some snippets of code I wrote for converting an SVG path into an FT_Outline. [...] Tom, thanks for that.

Re: [ft] Subpixel Hinting Patch

This one adds back a couple features that the older patches had, that do apparently follow the whitepaper after all. DejaVu fonts are fixed as well as Palatino Linotype, italics, and some glyph shapes (e.g. w x y z). Some regressions in Courier New. Not intended to be a totally clean

Re: [ft] Subpixel Hinting Patch

Yes, I can do that. Perhaps I use FT_LOAD_SUBPIXEL_HINTING instead? Oh, yes, definitely better. I would also like to get others to test the patch before formally submitting anything, to make sure I'm approaching it as generally as possible, and not specific to the fonts I like. If the

Re: [ft] Font rasterization

I have recently come across a great article about font rendering, http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/ Thanks for the pointer, I haven't known this article. It basically states (and very convincingly illustrates) that the secret to very good font rendering is to use only

Re: [ft] Font rasterization

Is hinting the default for FreeType? Basically yes, but the default font flags is something to be selected by the application. Does it need rewriting to use design metrics? I think so. At least for TrueType, you have to make a distinction between rendering for screens and rendering on

Re: [ft] [freetype] Bidirectional text ( arabic) glyph x advance

Arabic text is written from right to left. When two Arabic characters are typed, the glyph advance x position for the text typed (original text before reshaping) is determined using freetype get glyph routine. I have no idea how your layout engine works, but this approach looks plain wrong

Re: [ft] Anyone able to get freetype to compile for iPad?

cc1: error: unrecognized command line option -arch This error comes directly from gcc 4.2.1... I posted this on the iPhone SDK forum as well, but it may be something specific to the freetype config system, [...] I don't think so, since the compiler doesn't like the `-arch' flag which you

Re: [ft] Question about Hinting

Can anyone here confirm all the patents have expired? Ken Sharp from Artifix told me that now in May all patents have expired worldwide. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] Question about Hinting

I think it could be usefull to notice it in the patent page. The next release (coming soon if my spare time permits) will switch off the unpatented hinting hack; in due course I'll update the various web pages too. Werner ___ Freetype mailing

Re: [ft] Question about Hinting

Ok, so bad moving = bad rendering ! Yep. For example : I'm hinting a font for a size of 14. If I'm moving it with an integer number of pixels, it will be good Yes. but if I'm zooming out/zooming in, problems will happen ? Definitely. Hinting is always tied to a given size. I think I

Re: [ft] Freetype License

The first paragraph of the clause titled 3. Advertising in the Freetype license seems unclear to me. This may seem like a strange request, but please reword and/or summarize it. You have to be more specific. What is unclear? Werner ___

Re: [ft] rendering arabic string inopengl using free type 2

Hi,I want to render arabic text in opengl using free type 2 can you help me by a code how do it,please help me Please contact an OpenGL mailig list. FreeType is too low-level a library to be of help for you. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

[ft] FreeType 2.4.0 has been released

FreeType 2.4.0 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file;

Re: [ft] Building Freetype in another project

Now the problem, this is the code i changed/added to try and get the freetype to build in OUR project [...] Unfortunately, I've never used Jam, and David Turner is not responsive these days... Maybe there are simply errors in the Jamfile which crept in due to incorrect (or missing) updates.

[ft] FreeType 2.4.1 has been released

FreeType 2.4.1 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

Re: [ft] Stray pixel from FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap()?

I believe I'm seeing a regression between 2.3.9 and 2.3.11 when rendering monochrome text, resulting in a stray pixel being rendered - See the attached screenshots. Just for reference: Have you tested 2.4.1 also? I don't expect any improvement, but... Unfortunately, I'm not able to give

Re: [ft] Stray pixel from FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap()?

- Even though I'm getting different rasterization results between 2.3.9 and 2.3.11, I can't seem to see anything different being done. The output I attached is the same for both versions, leading me to suspect I'm not looking at the relevant code. I suggest that you build your product

Re: [ft] Stray pixel from FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap()?

As you suspected, Horizontal_Sweep_Drop() seems to be the culprit, and the 2.3.11 changes seem to be producing different results in the second/final call to it. I'm not going to try to understand the logic, nor suggest how to fix it (Not my area of expertise!). Instead, I've tried to print

Re: [ft] FreeType 2.4.1 has been released

out of curiosity, has Apple contacted the FreeType dev group concerning http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2018 (FreeType Compact Font Format Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities)? Yes. Fixed in 2.4.2. Even if it's not a serious problem on anything that isn't iOS, It is a

Re: [ft] FreeType 2.4.1 has been released

out of curiosity, has Apple contacted the FreeType dev group concerning http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2018 (FreeType Compact Font Format Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities)? Yes. Fixed in 2.4.2. Unfortunately, at least, Werner and me had not heard anything from Apple

Re: [ft] reading glyph bitmap

Corrected and functional code attached... [...] Does that mean it now works for you? Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] Re: Shiny New Subpixel Hinting Patch

Thanks a lot for your work! Also... there are a couple other patches included in this one, that can / would be disabled by default, like zipped fonts, etc. This is bad. Please don't mix different patches. Another feature that I've enabled in this version of the patch is one that makes

Re: [ft] CFF outline rendering problem

Uf, sorry, it seems that the download link have timed out. So this http://www.filefactory.com/file/b36458b/n/renderer_problem.zip is the example app, and this http://www.filefactory.com/file/b36458c/n/letter_g.png is how FT renders glyphs. Will have a look soon. Werner

Re: [ft] Question about FreeType usage

I would like to know if FreeType is used in any consumer or enterprise printers either currently or in the past? Yes, it is. This is what we've heard. If it is possible can you divulge which printer manufactures and models have FreeType as their main font renderer. I don't know any.

Re: [ft] Re: Shiny New Subpixel Hinting Patch

Just an FYI... I've found a few issues with the patch I've submitted here, as well as some additional enhancements. So at this moment, I still don't think these modifications would be ready for integration into Freetype. OK. I'll wait :-) Werner

Re: [ft] compilation issue

as I was trying to compile freetype 2.4.2 I ran into this: In file included from /src/a/freetype-2.4.2/src/truetype/truetype.c:22:0: /src/a/freetype-2.4.2/src/truetype/ttpic.c: In function 'tt_driver_class_pic_init': /src/a/freetype-2.4.2/src/truetype/ttpic.c:53:40: error: 'TT_Err_Ok'

[ft] Fw: freetype cache and glyph metrics

Please help this guy. Werner ---BeginMessage--- Hello Werner, I have been using freetype for some time and have come to my first stumbling block: When using the image and font face caches, how can I get the the full metrics of a glyph (metrics.horiBearingY, etc.)? It seems that information

Re: [ft] CFF outline rendering problem

I think I've found a bug in the cff renderer algorithm or I'm doing something seriously wrong. When rendering glyphs with cff outlines (otf, pfb fonts) the control points which are located under the baseline are connected with straight lines, for ttf fonts all the glyphs are rendered

[ft] FreeType 2.4.3 has been released

FreeType 2.4.3 has been released. All users should upgrade. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet

Re: [ft] CFF outline rendering problem

a // buffer are implemented (yielding the same output). // // Due to a bug in the FreeType's direct rendering support you should use // version 2.4.3 or newer to get correct results. // // Written Sept. 2010 by Róbert Márki gsm...@gmail.com, // with slight modifications by Werner Lemberg // // Public

Re: [ft] rasterize outline with antialias or clear type

, then no since it is not implemented yet (but there will be soon something into this direction). - I tried to rasterize some outline extract from a glyph with Werner Lemberg' example3 in the documentation; it works fine but there is no antialias even if I have setted

Re: [ft] Glyph name questions

- Is the name returned from FT_Get_GlyphName() suitable for use in a PostScript file (ie: glyphshow)? Including for Unicode glyphs (eg: CJK)? - What's the difference between FT_HAS_GLYPH_NAMES and FT_Has_PS_Glyph_Names()? The docs suggest there may be a difference (re: TTF), but

Re: [ft] Cross Compile Freetype2.4.2 with arm

I am working with ARM 9 BSP. I want to cross compile My FreeType Application with gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6 tool chain My input /opt/nxp/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/arm-linux-gnu/bin/arm-linux-gnu-gcc -lfreetype -lm example1_working.c but it gives error

[ft] Re: hashing macros in ftcache.h

The hashing macros in ftcache.h should be kept in future release? I propose to enclose them by the conditional FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS. Please do so. The arguments are convincing to me. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

I observed some differences in how fonts are rendered. Here is the screen showing same text rendered with the same font family and font size: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3171/freetype.jpg As you can see I used the most recent version of the library and some older one. Which

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

In fact the entire display in my application is broken now. The problem happens when hinting is enabled. If you turn off hinting, the line weights will all look correct. Of course, then hinting won't work. Which font? In case it is not a public one, please send it to me privately.

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

I can't tell you that without knowing details. Most important: Which font? Do you see the artifacts with `ftview' also? arial no, I didn't try ftview. Do you need any other details? [Testing with arial.ttf version 3.00] The first row in your image is arial if used with the autohinter.

Re: [ft] advance X value is less than width

It's hard to tell without more information. What font, at which ppem size? How does your font look like with, say, ftdiff or ftview? Here are the Details: FONT_NAME =Arial FONT_STYLE =Regular FONT_HEIGHT =12 Umm, I've asked for the ppem value, and you told me

Re: [ft] FT_Outline_Render makes different bitmaps in 32-bit and 64-bit programs?

It seems that this bug appears since a change between 2.3.9 and 2.3.10: [...] Thanks in advance for investigating the problem. Since I don't have access to a 64bit system, I unfortunately can't help much. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] Freetype license query

I have an LGPL library (Version 3) in which I would like to use Freetype. Can I link to freetype and still distribute my library as a binary? Is this true just for dynamic lining or statically as well ? Good question. I don't know. The question is whether the FreeType License (FTL) is

Re: [ft] Freetype license query

Hi sent the follow to the free software foundation [...] I received the following reply. [...] Thanks for telling us! Since this information is now in the mailing list archive, people should actually find it if necessary. Werner ___ Freetype

Re: [ft] Scaled Outline Coordinates at Scanline Intersections

I am interested in being able to calculate the value, in 26.6 coordinates, where the scanlines (at a given ppem) intersect each point in a given outline. For instance, as a crude example just using pixels: If I'm dealing with an outline of the letter T, at 8x5 px, I'm looking for a result

Re: [ft] FreeType Library Question

My second qustion is - Is it possible to generate outline letters - letter only with outlines, without fill? - like this one Outline letter http://www.surfnetkids.com/images//tn-big-outline-letter-a.gif. This is sort of demonstrated in file example2.cpp of the tutorial.

Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

1. Will the Autohinter still exist in the future, even that now the Bytecode Patents are legal to use? Yes. 2. One thing that, in my mind, is really bad about the Autohinter that when i compare a Text written in Times New Roman and Liberation Serif, which should have the same

Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

No. Metrics and glyph shapes have no direct relation. Normally, TrueType fonts contain special bytecode which controls the glyph width. To make Times New Roman and Liberation Serif have the same width, the bytecode for controlling the width must do the same. The autohinter doesn't access

Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

In case the unhinted metrics for Times New Roman and Liberation Serif are identical, they will stay identically on paper, regardless whether you use the autohinter or the bytecode interpreter for rendering glyphs on screen. In case you get different results, something is severely broken in

Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

But with Freetype2 + Autohint, the line with the exact same text is in one font longer, than in the other one. Maybe this is a problem with Liberation Serif itself. I just can repeat: It's not a `problem' at all. Are there any fonts that even with Autohinter on, can replace the M$ Fonts

[ft] autohinter improvements

Erik made me aware of his own blog entries: http://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=21p=175#p175 Since he apparently has forgotten to mention them here on the lists, I do it now :-) Werner ___ Freetype mailing list

Re: [ft] Glyph issue in freetype 2.3.10

I have used freetype 2.3.9 to display Indic/arabic language using gtk. It displays correctly with its contextual interpretation. But when I changed to freetype-2.3.10, I can see only original form of each glyph, thus without any contextual interpretation. Test the offending font with, say,

Re: [ft] JAM issue

I am trying to compile freetype 2.4.3 and its demos on VisualC++ 2010 Express under Windows 7 64 bit with use of FTJAM 2.5.2. I'm very sorry, but the only developer who has used ftjam actively, David Turner, basically no longer works on FreeType. In case you can provide patches (to the

[ft] FreeType 2.4.4 has been released

FreeType 2.4.4 has been released. All users should upgrade. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet

Re: [ft] Glyph issue in freetype 2.3.10

If you do not mind, could you please tell me what are improvements of freetype 2.3.7 to 2.3.10/11 ? Any performance improvement, if so how to measure ? Have a look in the CHANGES file! Note that the current version is 2.4.4 (released yesterday). Some speed improvements have been added in

[ft] Re: umlauts : Different Position between Word and FreeType

Céline, please *never* send copyrighted material (in your case, the file Font_U.ttf) to a public mailing list! For this reason, I can't forward your mail to the freetype mailing list (freetype-devel is rather not for FreeType users). I have a question about umlauts. When I use letter ü

[ft] Re: Simple Question About How Hinting Works

[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

Re: [ft] CFF outline rendering problem

In October I wrote: I have tested it and it works. All the glyphs rendered with FT_RASTER_FLAG_DIRECT flag look the same as if they were rendered onto a bitmap. Unfortunately, this isn't true. Compiling the attached example4.cpp and comparing ./example4

Re: [ft] CFF outline rendering problem

I've noticed you changed the filename of the example to example4.cpp, you should modify the include directive at the end of the file too to be able to build it. The generated file will be called example4.moc in this case. So this line: #include main.moc should be changed to

Re: [ft] How do I iterate over each kerning pair?

I know that you can use FT_Get_Kerning() if you want to retrieve the kerning for a specific pair of glyphs but what if I just want to loop over all of the available kerning pairs and get the information? Assuming that you are using TrueType fonts, the easiest way is to parse the `kern' table

Re: [ft] How do I iterate over each kerning pair?

How do I parse the 'kern' table? I have looked through freetype.h and I do not see any functions that provide access to this table. You have to load it with FT_Load_Sfnt_Table, then write code to parse it. See the OpenType specification. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/

Re: [ft] CFF_MAX_CID_FONTS

Does anyone know why CFF_MAX_CID_FONTS (maximum number of sub-fonts in a CID-keyed file) is 32 in cfftypes.h? It's arbitrary. Up to now I've never seen a font with more than 15 subfonts (hiragino). I'm using a font in which fd_index.count == 53 [...] Changing CFF_MAX_CID_FONTS to 64 seems

Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression

check your font whether my assumption is correct. I only have `Helvetica Neue LT Pro 65 Medium' version 001.000 (from 2003), but this is an OpenType font with CFF outlines. Accidentally, I've also found `Helvetica Neue LT Com 65 Medium' (2.01 from 2006). My assumption was correct: The

Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression

From: Vinnie thev...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:20:06 -0800 (PST) The function FT_Get_Gasp tells you, for a given ppem, whether you should render a glyph as monochrome (i.e., black-white) or with

Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression

So it seems that the font I have is unhinted, hence the small size. No. It's hinted. I just assumed that all TrueType/OpenType fonts that came from Linotype or other well recognized foundries were loaded to the gills with hints but it seems I am mistaken. Helvetica originally is a Type 1

Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression

The trickyness is that you are trying to separate hinting from rasterizing.  As explained already, the TrueType bytecode interpreter and the rasterizer do interact.  It's not intended to be handled separately. I went through the trouble of tweaking my 3rd party library to support rendering

Re: [ft] outline get cropped when render chinese simkai.ttf font

[I don't have simkai.ttf, so I can't test.] this is the result i render the chinese character '畠',I think the outline get cropped, while the other fonts like 'simsun.ttf' does't have this problem。the freetype version i used is 2.4.4 Zooming in, it rather looks like artifacts. Do you get the

[ft] Fw: Compile Error use arm-linux-gcc3.4.1

ARM developers, please comment and help if possible! Werner ---BeginMessage--- Hi Werner, We used arm-linux-gcc3.4.1 to compile the freetype 244 the following error occurred: /tmp/ccYNGbm3.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccYNGbm3.s:7607: Error: register or shift expression expected -- `orr

Re: [ft] outline get cropped when render chinese simkai.ttf font

[...] the chinese character '全',I think the outline get cropped, while the other fonts like 'simsun.ttf' doesn't have this problem。 the freetype version i used is 2.4.4，thank you。 Thanks for the font link. However, I can't repeat the problem with the current git version of FreeType.

Re: [ft] Freetype, transformations and run-time italic

We were thinking about ways of making EFL support run-time italicization of fonts/glyphs. Minor nitpick: It is not possible to `italicize' a glyph: many italic glyphs have different shapes compared to the upright version. What you actually want to do is to slant the glyphs (`oblique type').

Re: [ft] how to build freetype so that it matches 1 of 2 observed behaviours

http://ardour.org/afonts.png http://ardour.org/afonts-100.png I get a `page not found'. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] how to build freetype so that it matches 1 of 2 observed behaviours

i consider the upper section of the image to have inferior rendering than the lower one. i'm trying to figure out how to build a version of freetype that will render like the lower section. as an experiment, i fetched fedora's source rpm, ripped out the tarball, applied all their patches,

Re: [ft] how to build freetype so that it matches 1 of 2 observed behaviours

what i really meant was whether freetype's build is environmentally-sensitive in some subtle ways. All the configurable stuff (at compile time) is in ftoption.h. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] IPA font baseline

I use FT2.3.1 to parse IPA fonts - IPA Minchao. This is more than three years old! The current FreeType version is 2.4.4... The last parameter of function FT_Load_Glyph() was set to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT, so that font glyph could be hinted before load out. But metrics of output glyph seems wrong

Re: [ft] IPA font baseline

Attached file is the example from FT. Which parameters shall I give the demo program? What output do you expect? Font file of IPA Minchao is too large, so download it self :( URL: http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ Which one? Please provide a more precise link. Werner

Re: [ft] IPA font baseline

Ex. command line - example1.exe c:/ipam.ttf ahg The result of my PC is attached file 're.jpg'. example1.c was updated, please use the new attached one. The result you get is correct. Attached is the glyph `h' as shown in fontforge: All ASCII glyphs `float' above the base line instead of

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