Re: [Freetype] Font Sizes In FreeType Seem To Be Incorrect

[Werner LEMBERG]

> If I take Arial.fft in the Windows font directory
> and render the letter 'A' at 40pt in MS Word and in
> Acrobat, I get a letter that is 38 pixels tall.

Which dpi do you use?  Which dpi does MS Word use?

> When I render the letter 'A' in ftview at 40pt,
> I get a letter that is 29 pixels tall.

This is 96dpi.

> I have the opposite problem with some pure CFF fonts.
> Rendering at 40pt gives me a 59 pixel tall 'A' in ftview
> instead of the 34 I get in Acrobat.

Maybe some default font matrix is involved in Acrobat...  Tom?


    Werner