Re: [Devel] using PFR fonts with freetype2 from CVS

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

address@hidden (Detlef Würkner) writes:

> > However one of the fonts I've tested places the stem of the 'i'
> > character way off. It appears one pixel to the left and way up while
> > the 'i'-point seems to appear at the correct position. The font in
> > question can be downloaded here:
> > 
> >  http://www.truedoc.com/pfrs/Zurich.pfr
> 
> Just want to confirm that the problem is still there even with the
> current PFR driver. It appears with the first font (face index 0) of
> Zurich.pfr and also with
> 
> Exotc350DmBd.pfr
> ZurichBlkEx.pfr
> ZurichXCn.pfr
> 
> Btw, the inverted exclamation mark (¡) can be used for comparisons in
> the Zurich fonts, it looks like the i is expected to do. And some other
> 'i' variants are also affected: For ÍÎÌíîì (upper and lower i with
> acute, circumflex, grave) the 'i' is positioned left of the accent
> instead of just below of it. A composite problem?

I can confirm this problem with even more fonts. When I first reported
it, I wasn't sure if it was a problem of our font rendering engine but
in the meantime I have been able to reproduce it with ft_view and a
whole bunch of fonts.


Salut, Sven