[ft] Asterix cropped in Arial 10

[Frensch, Kay]

Hello,

 

I am using Freetype 2.3.9 to generate BDF Fonts from TrueType Fontfiles

with the help of the otf2bdf commandline tool by M. Leisher.

 

The Asterix sign " * ", 0x2A, from Arial Unicode MS degenerates in point size 10 @ 72 dpi to a 3x3 bitmap

showing only the lower two beams of the star looking like a pico-^.

It gets cropped at the top somewhere in or below ft_raster1_render().

 

Since neither the font nor size nor the character is uncommon, I am wondering what I am missing.

 

Thanks in advance,

Kay Frensch

 

Codeoutline used for tests:

 

in lib:

    #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER

    /* #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING */

 

in otf2bdf:

    FT_Init_FreeType()

    FT_New_Face()

    FT_Set_Char_Size()

    FT_Set_Charmap()

    ... lot of stuff to extract platform encodings and generate names for BDF ...

    for (code = 0; code < 0xffff; code++)

    {

        FT_Get_Char_Index()

        FT_Load_Glyph(face, idx, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO)

        FT_Render_Glyph(face->glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_MONO)

    }

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