Re: [Freetype] Re: Freetype digest, Vol 1 #404 - 3 msgs

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > The code for that it rather deeply buried into FreeType...
> 
> Perhaps this part of FreeType (i.e. loading TTFs) should be split
> off into a separate library? Either that or alter the API to allow
> the library users to access the contours.

You are welcome to suggest something we can work on.  All of us are
extremely busy people, so don't expect any quick result in case
nobody volunteers.

> I would be able to use the FreeType rasterizer if it treated text in
> an infinitely scalable way. But it doesn't appear to. Bounding
> boxes, for example, appear to be specified in integer units. So the
> layout of text will be ruined by the accumulation of unecessary
> round-off errors.

This is not true.  You can get both scaled and unscaled bboxes; the
former have hinting applied, while the latter are in 26.6 fixed float
format.

> On top of that, I can't get glyphs as contours. So it appears that
> my only option is to gut FreeType, cut-n-paste the TTF loading part
> into my own code and not link to the library.