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From: | Juergen Reuter |
Subject: | Re: skyline vertical spacing |
Date: | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:47:08 +0100 (CET) |
Maybe the real point here is that for almost all glyphs we want to have a _convex_ outline (such that e.g. stems do not extend into glyphs) rather than a tight skyline?
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Werner LEMBERG escreveu:I'm not sure whether an automated process really gives satisfactory results.The skyline could approximate the real outline with arbitrary precision. What's the problem?It's the opposite. A too-good approximation of the outline might be too tight.It should be easy to fatten an outline to get some extra padding. Making outlines by hand will be error prone, and time consuming, as they have to scale exactly with all the MF parameters.
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