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Re: [ft-devel] Taming CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_DARKENING_PARAMETER_Y* for a gam


From: Behdad Esfahbod
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Taming CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_DARKENING_PARAMETER_Y* for a gamma of ~2.2/sRGB?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:27 +0100
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On 15-08-25 04:30 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Behdad Esfahbod
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 15-08-25 03:29 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>>
>>> On the other hand: How many recent fonts in the wild have such
>>> misformed glyphs?
>>
>> I saw one when developing GLyphy.  Note that these are valid fonts according
>> to TrueType spec.  They just don't follow the "recommended" outline 
>> winding...
>>
>> Perhaps it's ok to ignore these.  Just something to know is possible.
> 
> For the record, Windows 7 rejects this font.

That's probably because my subsetter was too aggressive...

> If this mistake was made
> in the letter 'O' it wold not be rendered correctly by FreeType. So
> this glyph *happens* to render correctly just because the outlines are
> not nested.

Sure.  That's the whole point of non-zero-winding fill rune.

> Testing for this is easier said than done. It easier to
> fix the font.

lol.  True.  We have to fix these in GLyphy however...

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