Re: [Devel] Glyph loading fails with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING

[Gustavo J. A. M.]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:22, Scott Long wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2003 16:59:50 +0000
>   "Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   Before giving up, I tried to do a simple experiment: remove the 
> >load
> >flag:
> >
> >-    error = FT_Load_Char(face, chr, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING);
> >+    error = FT_Load_Char(face, chr, 0);
> >
> >Then it worked! However, rendering sucks completely since I'm using a
> >char size of 1 pixel and scale to the required size. This must be a 
> >bug
> >in freetype (2.1.3); I makes no sense to have a glyph available only 
> >if
> >you specify hinting.
> 
> I wouldn't blame Freetype immediately. I have seen fonts with glyphs 
> that are produced almost entirely by hinting. This seems to be 
> purposeful, but I don't understand why anyone would do it. We have an 
> example of a Chinese font with some glyphs that don't render correctly 
> (either they are blank or look entirely different) without bytecode 
> hinting enabled.

  This is slightly different (and worse). In my case, if I disable
hinting FT_Get_Char() returns an error and doesn't even load the glyph.
Not that I like to blame freetype, but I am! :)

> 
> Scott Long
> SwiftView, Inc. http://www.swiftview.com
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