Re: [Freetype] metric differences Freetype vs. Truetype

[Giuliano Pochini]

On 29-Apr-2003 Marc L Cohen wrote:
>>Yes, the hinter can change the width of a gliph.
>
> There is a difference between changing the width of the ink of a glyph and
> the advance width

AFAI have seen, it can change both, but I may be wrong.

> Changing the advance width can
> have very serious effects on the layout of text, especially the nuerals,
> which should all have the same advance width to allow vertical columns of
> the digits.

If you need vertical alignment, you should use a monospaced font. Otherwise
you may have problems. IIRC M$ Arial digits seem to have all the same width,
but "2113" is shorter than "2131" because there are two consecutive "1".


Bye.