Re: [Devel] Problems with bbox code and cubic bezier curves

[Nathan Hurst]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Toby J Sargeant wrote:

> I like your argument that the bbox calculation should be pixel correct,
> though. Maybe it would be useful to have a function for returning a
> pixel correct bounding box, in pixel units, and a glyph bounding box
> in glyph units that is ``mathematically correct''.

I can't see how subdivisions alone will give pixel correct bboxs?  surely
you would need to actually run the rendering algo to compute antialiasing
values etc?

njh