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Re: positive descender with type1 fonts
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: positive descender with type1 fonts |
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:46:04 +0200 (CEST) |
> Yes, it's an obvious bug. FreeType uses the TrueType convention
> of returning negative descenders (well, for typical fonts :-)
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> Or, we could change the convention to only return positive values.
> I would like Werner's opinion before committing your patch..
I believe that most users agree that returning negative values is more
intuitive, so I suggest to have negative values for descenders.
Werner