Re: [Freetype] Outline vertices

[Braden McDaniel]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:29, David Turner wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:11:45 +0100, David Turner wrote:
> > 
> >>Have you tried loading the outlines at different scales, or simply
> >>with no scaling/hinting with FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE ?
> > 
> > If I use FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE, do I lose any guarantee that the outlines will
> > be at a consistent scale between glyphs? And between faces?
> >
> With FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE, you'll get the outlines expressed in "EM units", so
> they'll be consistent between glyphs of the same faces.
> 
> However, they will not between distinct faces since this is a font designer
> choice.

That's what I suspected. But it looks like I can use
FT_FaceRec::units_per_EM to scale things to the range 0..1, which is all
I'm after.

> May I suggest you to read the "FreeType Glyph Conventions" document, it
> should explain all of this pretty well..

Yes, I've been looking at it. Thanks for your help.

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