> This is actually another question I suppose. What are the sizes I'm > specifying when I make a size request? Somehow they must relate to the > final size but I'm not sure how. Perhaps this is all that I'm missing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29 http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-2.html 2012/8/22 edA-qa mort-ora-y <[email protected]>: > On 22/08/12 07:34, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> That is, I set the height of the font to 32, thus I expect all >>> glyphs to fit within a height of 32. >> This is a wrong expectation. > > This is actually another question I suppose. What are the sizes I'm > specifying when I make a size request? Somehow they must relate to the > final size but I'm not sure how. Perhaps this is all that I'm missing. > >> As mentioned many times on this list, the *only* way to get a smallest >> bbox for a string of glyphs at a certain resolution is to call >> FT_Load_Glyph for each glyph so that hinting instructions get applied. > > I don't need an exact size, nor do I need to worry about glyphs that go > beyond a typical bounding box. I'm interested only in the typical > metrics. If you're saying there is no such thing then fine, it means I > have to render the glyphs twice. > > -- > edA-qa mort-ora-y > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Sign: Please digitally sign your emails. > Encrypt: I'm also happy to receive encrypted mail. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype > _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
