Re: [ft-devel] check for missing glyf table

2009-03-05 Thread Ken Sharp
At 00:19 05/03/2009 -0800, Ralph Giles wrote: > I must set up gs + freetype to test those things. Â As soon as I'm > ready for that I'll contact you, asking for failing fonts (and/or > snippets) which I can debug then. the 'alphabet.ps' example file with ghostscript shows the problem with the t

[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 b

Re: [ft-devel] freetype compilation warnings

2010-01-12 Thread Ken Sharp
At 12:28 11/01/2010 -0500, Sean McBride wrote: >#define ALL_POINTS (FT_UShort*)(void*)( ~0UL ) I don't have the compiler in question, so the only way for me to test is commit the change to VTK CVS then wait for the next automated nightly build. :( Anyone here have Visual Studio? Yes, any

Re: [ft-devel] freetype compilation warnings

2010-01-12 Thread Ken Sharp
At 12:28 11/01/2010 -0500, Sean McBride wrote: >> warning C4306: 'type cast' : conversion from 'int' to 'void *' of >greater size [snip] I don't have the compiler in question, so the only way for me to test is commit the change to VTK CVS then wait for the next automated nightly build. :

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 6

Re: [ft-devel] loading fonts with signature 'OTTO'

2010-03-05 Thread Ken Sharp
At 13:40 05/03/2010 +, Graham Asher wrote: Does anyone know whether FreeType supports fonts with the signature (first 4 bytes) 'OTTO', and if so, which drivers are needed, and in which version was support added for this format? I have googled for some time, and experimented with various d

[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 we

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 s

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 f

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 e

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 f

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 atta

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: 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 > TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_

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: [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 for

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] "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 to

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 mainta

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 . ./include/freetype/ftincrem.h:85:

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

2018-04-02 Thread Ken Sharp
for us. I hope 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@n