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[Freetype] Re: Outline vertices


From: Braden McDaniel
Subject: [Freetype] Re: Outline vertices
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:58:31 -0500
User-agent: Pan/0.13.1 (It's always funny until somebody immanentizes the eschaton)

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:51:17 +0100, David Turner wrote:

> Very frankly, you'd better use the global bounding box instead of the
> EM. The latter is really a convenience for font designers as well as
> a technical detail of font implementations. There is *no* aesthetical
> meaning associated to it, thinking otherwise would be a mistake.
> 
> Applications should not use this as a basic for text layout and
> measurement, only to apply scaling to device pixels when needed.

Alright, then. Thanks again. :-)

Braden



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