Re: [ft] Pitch Smaller Than Bitmap Width + Make Build Errors

[Wenlin Institute]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Mickey Gabel wrote:

> I found a strange case in FT2 (using 2.3.8) where I get a bitmap of  
> width 20, but the pitch is 3.

pitch == 3 means three bytes, which is wide enough for 3 * 8 = 24  
pixels (monochrome).

If the bitmap is supposed to be monochrome, there might be nothing  
strange about it.

Tom


> It happens for Unicode point 215 (U+00D7 multiplication sign) and  
> the font is simhei.ttf .
> If needed, I'll work on making a self contained C file that shows  
> this. I can't use the FT2 demos because of a different issue (see  
> below)
>
> 1) Is this a bug? It certainly doesn't look like valid behavior.
> 2) Is this a bug in FT2 or a bug in the font? Should a buggy font  
> be able to cause that?
>
> Another issue: I am trying to build ft2 using mingw make 3.81 and I  
> get an error in the Makefile:
>
>  C:\Development\FT2\freetype2>make.exe -v
>  GNU Make 3.81
>  Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>  This program built for i686-pc-mingw32
>
>  C:\Development\FT2\freetype2>make
>  process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, type builds\newline, ...) failed.
>  make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>  make: *** [dos_setup] Error 2
>
> This happens both with FT2 2.3.8 as well as the latest from CVS.
> It also happens even when I use "make setup visualc" to skip  
> detection.
>
>
>
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