[Freetype] Re: Outline vertices

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:57:17 +0100, David Turner wrote:

> Braden McDaniel wrote:

[snip]

>> 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.
>>
> That should work. Keep in mind that font designers can create glyphs that
> extend outside of the EM square. You should use the global bounding box
> instead if you're looking for the ability to constrain all coordinates
> to a range like [0..1]

Hm. I'm not sure of the implications of that. If a font designer decides
that the glyphs should be outside the EM square, perhaps they should spill
out of the "normal" area when I render them ... ?

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