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Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text |
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Wed, 27 May 2009 16:20:02 +0200 (CEST) |
> it appears, that it's not possible to let freetype autohint rotated
> text.
Yep.
> My question is why this ist he case.
Just remember what autohinting actually does: It tries to align stems
and other features along a grid. If you have rotated text, there is
no grid to align to.
> In our application we're only dealing with rotations of 90° steps,
> though.
This is a special case, not handled by lazyness.
> I'm not looking for a solution, just some information about why the
> autohinter currently only works for unrotated text.
Maybe there is a volunteer which wants to make the autohinter support
text rotated by 90°, 180°, and 270°?
Werner
- [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, Thomas Geier, 2009/05/27
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, James Cloos, 2009/05/27
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, Graham Asher, 2009/05/27
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, James Cloos, 2009/05/27
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/05/28
- AW: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text (testing patch), Thomas Geier, 2009/05/28
- Re: AW: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text (testing patch), Werner LEMBERG, 2009/05/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter only works for unrotated text, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/05/29