Re: [ft-devel] Moving advance width in references with instructions

[Werner LEMBERG]

[Executable based on sources from 01:38 GMT 14-May-2009-ML.
 Library based on sources from 00:29 GMT 13-May-2009.]

> The attached screenshots display rendering of "A" and Cyrillic A of
> ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/istok/Istok-Regular.ed.ttf.bz2 by freetype
> 2.3.9 at 18 ppem using fontforge's grid fitting. The advance point
> of "A" is moved against rightmost point on its contour.  Since
> Cyrillic A is reference to "A" it should be rendered
> identically. But the advance point Cyrillic A does not moved so its
> contour exceeds glyph width. The similar issue occures with "e" and
> Cyrillic e at 12 ppem.

I can't reproduce.  Using the given fontforge version together with
the current git version of FreeType, I get the attached result which
looks just fine.


    Werner