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

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Is the original report on sourceforge?  Do you have a sample font that causes
problems?  If so, I'd have to say the font is not "good" in the sense of
following the Type 1 recommendations that start/end points of arcs are at points
of horizontal of vertical extrema (this means that the tangents at these points
are horizontal or vertical -- from one's basic calculus).  If this is the case,
the bbox code *should* work just fine (after David makes the change he said he
would make).

If this is not the case, I'd like to understand way the iterations exceed the 
arc
stack (and by how much).  David's changes will allow for up to 32 interations.

Tom

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ivan Nincic wrote:

>
> > > I don't deny that the current code has some problems. For example, Werner
> > > seems to think that the arc stack can overflow.
>
> > I don't `think'.  This was a bug report. :-)
>
> Check out my original bug report. I included a case in which path overflowed
> existing stack by several orders of magnitue.  For any fixed stack there is a
> Bezier which will overflow it.
>