On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 07:11:26PM -0300, Dalai Felinto wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get the ascent and descent of a font with freetype2. The > sample code is really small and can be found here [1]. > > However the values I get are very different from what FontForge and even > google slides is using. > > For example, the Indie Flower font [2] has 819 and 205 (0.8, 0.2) according > to FontForge. However, in freetype2 I'm getting 994 and (-)500 (0.67 and > 0.33). > > The same is valid for numerous other fonts that I tried (which curiously > all had 0.8 and 0.2 proportional values).
In FontForge you should look under Font Info → OS/2 → Metrics, the values you see under Font Info → General are not actually used for anything in the exported font AFAIK. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
