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Re: [ft] Question about Hinting


From: nicolas jean
Subject: Re: [ft] Question about Hinting
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:00:21 +0200

2010/5/21 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>> In the FT_GlyphSlotRec struct, I've got information about my glyph
>> like the outline points but these points are slightly different than
>> the points I read directly in the file.
>
> This depends on the load flags.  If you select FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE, no
> hinting is applied, and you should get the glyph points in font units,
> unchanged.  Selecting a hinting engine will move usually all points.
>
>> I think there is a factor between them and there is more points with
>> Freetype !
>
> FreeType adds four phantom points, following the TrueType
> specification.
>
>
>    Werner
>

So, the hinting values are directly computed in the outline tabular.
There is no more additional process ?



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