Re: [ft-devel] Time for a new FreeType release

2018-04-02 Thread Ken Sharp
we can at least isolate the problem this week and then you can decide whether to delay releasing until we can propose a good fix. Regards, Ken Sharp ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType incremental glyph loading

2018-01-25 Thread Ken Sharp
At 14:31 25/01/2018 +0300, Ann Brednikhina wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! But the situation with git clone is absolutely the same. I have cloned http://git.sv.nongnu.org/r/freetype/freetype2.git c:\GIT\freetype2>grep -RnP --color=always FT_IncrementalRec .

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType incremental glyph loading

2018-01-25 Thread Ken Sharp
At 11:51 25/01/2018 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Please send me a link to the full sources or some instructions how to > add into our project. Incremental glyph loading is contributed code; I'm not familiar with it. I hope that Chris or some other person from Artifex (the ghostscript

Re: [ft-devel] "Inside the fastest font renderer in the world"

2016-08-05 Thread Ken Sharp
At 09:09 05/08/2016 +0100, Graham Asher wrote: I see your point, but I think that adding obfuscation (the extra complexity introduced by using C) to the code to support a tiny and vanishing minority of systems without C++ is not worth the bother; such systems would very probably not be able

Re: [ft-devel] Windows x64 Build Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 105, Issue 12

2013-10-24 Thread Ken Sharp
At 20:31 23/10/2013 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Just wish to point out that a copy of the whole of freetype is bundled with ghostscript, and ghostscript has been routinely built for win64 for quite a few years. For as long as it was, the preferred compiler for building ghostscript for

Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules

2012-08-30 Thread Ken Sharp
At 10:26 30/08/2012 -0400, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: Can we ask FreeType users what do they want to have and have simplified in API? What do they not need too? By users I mostly mean: - Cairo and Pango (Behdad ?) - Qt - fontconfig - ghostscript (Ken Sharp ?) Should be Chris Liddell

Re: [ft-devel] TrueType hinting

2012-08-24 Thread Ken Sharp
At 15:18 24/08/2012 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Thank you for your prompt response. I am surprised, because when embedded in a PDF file, the font is displayed incorrectly by GhostScript 9.02 which uses FreeType 2.4.3. Indeed, using ftview from 2.4.2 and 2.4.4, the font fails splendidly.

Re: Fw: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.0 has been released

2010-07-29 Thread Ken Sharp
At 11:20 29/07/2010 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: can you answer this mail? No problem :-) I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Since May 2010, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode interpreter have expired worldwide. Consequently, we now define

Re: [ft-devel] Re: possible inefficiency in gray_render_cubic

2010-06-08 Thread Ken Sharp
At 10:04 08/06/2010 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I am sceptical about the need to calculate both da and db. Perhaps db only will suffice. I hope that David or Werner can comment. This is something Ken can probably check: He has a large database for Ghostscript to compare rendering results,

Re: [ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-22 Thread Ken Sharp
At 13:44 21/03/2010 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Needed some minor tweaking for Windows (inttypes.h doesn't exist, so conditionally typedef FT_Int64 as __int64) Patch, please. Uploaded alongside the issue report, it really is quite trivial. Should I open an issue in Savannah and attach

Re: [ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-21 Thread Ken Sharp
At 23:32 20/03/2010 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: However, I did notice while reading ftraster.c that it can be built stand-alone without the rest of FreeType (I hope that's not just a legacy comment ;-) I check regularly whether it compiles, and a few months ago someone even sent fixes for

Re: [ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-20 Thread Ken Sharp
At 08:08 20/03/2010 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Can you provide a font which I can use to do some debugging? Which parameters shall I use for, say, ftview? Hi Werner, this is a PostScript font, not a TrueType, and as usual it depends on using Ghostscript as the FreeType client, so I can't

Re: [ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-19 Thread Ken Sharp
Hi James, all, At 10:49 18/03/2010 -0400, James Cloos wrote: It looks like ftraster.c:Vertical_Sweep_Drop() is responsible for that. Actually this routine never gets called in either case. It seems the vertical pass processing decides there is nothing to do. That is, in Render_Single_Pass

Re: [ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-18 Thread Ken Sharp
Hi James, At 10:49 18/03/2010 -0400, James Cloos wrote: KS This is the point for discussion, it seems to me that the location KS of the feature within the pixel should not have any effect on KS whether the pixel is marked or not, that should only depend (In my KS opinion of course) on the size

[ft-devel] inconsistently dropping sub-pixel features

2010-03-17 Thread Ken Sharp
Hi all, This may or may not be regarded as a bug, so I thought I'd put it up for discussion before potentially raising it as an issue. Background === I've been interfacing Freetype with Ghostscript for some time. The project is going pretty well on the whole, but as you can imagine

Re: [ft-devel] What is 26.6 fractional points?

2010-01-14 Thread Ken Sharp
At 19:21 13/01/2010 +, rsr wrote: Hi, Can any one please explain me what is nominal width, 26.6 fractional points Its a way of representing a non-integer number in a 32-bit word. The first 26 bits are used to represent the integer portion of the number so the integer can vary from 0 to

[ft-devel] Re: improved incremental interface for metrics

2009-06-23 Thread Ken Sharp
At 17:03 22/06/2009 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: The `FT_Incremental_MetricsRec' expects integer values. My suggestion is to introduce a new function `get_fractional_glyph_metrics'; if this function is defined, use it, otherwise use `get_glyph_metrics'. Objections? Looks fine to me, should