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Re: Order of outlines in a glyph
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Just van Rossum |
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Re: Order of outlines in a glyph |
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Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:57:54 +0100 |
At 2:26 PM +0200 04-07-2000, Heinrich Wiedemann wrote:
>is there a rule in the TT-specs, saying how outlines are to be ordered
>in a glyph ?
I didn't think so, and a quick search through the spec yields nothing.
(Btw. nor does the T1 spec.)
>Usually inner boundaries (if any) are immediately following their
>corresponding outer boundaries, but I found some symbol fonts
>where 'islands' are before or much behind their outer boundary
>and this causes some trouble in my app, which directly processes
>the outlines.
>Has anybody written a 'resequencer' for ill outlines ?
I can imagine sorting them by bounding box surface; I'm not sure if this is
solid enough, but anything better would be an order of magnitude more
complicated I would guess.
Just