[Devel] scaled or unscaled.

[Armin Sander]

Hi,

FreeType Glyph Conventions Version 2.1

from:
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-5.html

V. Text processing

Second last paragraph:
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Some applications, like Adobe Acrobat, which targeted device-independent
placement from the start, do not suffer from this problem. There are two
ways to achieve this: either use the scaled and unhinted glyph metrics when
laying out text both in the rendering and printing processes, or simply use
whatever metrics you want and store them with the text in order to get sure
they are printed the same on all devices (the latter being probably the best
solution, as it also enables font substitution without breaking text
layouts).

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shouldn't this read

'either use the *unscaled* and unhinted glyph metrics',

or am I missing something here?

IMHO 'scaled' metrics would certainly introduce errors when displaying text
at different resolutions.

...armin

http://www.mindwalker.org