Re: [ft] face->ascender always has the same height

[Olumide]

Based on information available in the FontForge I now see that the 
descender that's been returned is the "Win Ascent", which is the 
ascender metric for Windows -- whatever that means.

Sample FontForge screenshot -- not mine
http://stackoverflow.com/a/39425906/181783

How can I get the _true_ ascender/decender at a given scale?

- Olumide


On 28/11/2016 13:09, Olumide wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I've written a bit of code to rasterizing fonts at any arbitrary size as
> follows:
>
> #define FONT_HEIGHT 18
>
> FT_Size_RequestRec req = { FT_SIZE_REQUEST_TYPE_BBOX , 0 , FONT_HEIGHT *
> 64 , 0 , 0 };
> CHECK_STATUS( error , "Request size rec" )
>
> FT_Request_Size( face , &req );
> CHECK_STATUS( error , "Request size" )
>
> Oddly, face->ascender always has the same height. Why is this the case?
> I need the ascender in order to locate my rasterized font in the
> requested box (of max size FONT_HEIGHT).
>
> Regards,
>
> - Olumide