Fwd: [ft] Small advance/spacing problem

[Daniel Wyatt]

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From: Daniel Wyatt <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ft] Small advance/spacing problem
To: Mickey Gabel <address@hidden>


It looks like that was indeed the problem!
Thank you so much.
It was bothering me since everything else was working great.
I should have gone back through the FreeType tutorials.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Mickey Gabel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Wyatt wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on a small library called sfmlTTF which provides me with
>> the features SFML's sf::String lacks.
>> But I'm having a small problem.
>> See this image:
>> http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m300/silentdae/Test.jpg
>>
>> The cyan lines are the x advance.
>> The bottom string was drawn with my code.
>> The top string was drawn with someone else's code.
>> Notice how they aren't aligned exactly the same.
>> In particular, the advance of the 'i' looks like it's way off.
>>
>> Both strings were drawn with the same font and same size, neither using
>> kerning.
>> I have looked through the other person's code plenty but I can't spot
>> any major differences.
>>
>> I'm just wondering if anyone could guess why this would happen.
>> Here is the relevant portion of the code:
>> http://pastebin.com/m50ab661
>>
>
> It's just a guess, but it looks as if the code doesn't take into account
> that glyphs can start on the left side of the pen. It doesn't take into
> account mFace->glyph->bitmap->left and mFace->glyph->bitmap->top.
> However I'm no expert, so it might not be that :)
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