Re: [ft] How to render glyphs with baseline offset

[Wojciech Mamrak]

> I don't know.  However, I'm quite sure that rotation is a graphics
> operation which is rather easy to do.  Just remember that hinting
> should be off normally if a string gets rotated.

Yes, it is trivial. But I was rather thinking about text which is
rotated, hinted, and of subpixel quality - this certainly requires the
use of FT's transformation capabilities. I am not sure whether any
tool wrapping FT supports all these features.

2013/3/17 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>> Werner, is harfbuzz a text shaping engine [2], or text layout engine
>> as well [1]?
>
> It's the former, AFAIK.
>
>> Even if the latter is the case, does it support text rotations, as
>> mentioned in the OP?
>
> I don't know.  However, I'm quite sure that rotation is a graphics
> operation which is rather easy to do.  Just remember that hinting
> should be off normally if a string gets rotated.
>
>
>     Werner