/* */
/* FreeType convenience functions to handle glyphs (specification). */
/* */
-/* Copyright 1996-2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009 by */
+/* Copyright 1996-2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 by */
/* David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. */
/* */
/* This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, */
/* units in 26.6 pixel format. The value @FT_GLYPH_BBOX_SUBPIXELS */
/* is another name for this constant. */
/* */
+ /* If the font is tricky and the glyph has been loaded with */
+ /* @FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE, the resulting CBox is meaningless. To get */
+ /* reasonable values for the CBox it is necessary to load the glyph */
+ /* at a large ppem value (so that the hinting instructions can */
+ /* properly shift and scale the subglyphs), then extracting the CBox */
+ /* which can be eventually converted back to font units. */
+ /* */
/* Note that the maximum coordinates are exclusive, which means that */
/* one can compute the width and height of the glyph image (be it in */
/* integer or 26.6 pixels) as: */
/* // convert to a bitmap (default render mode + destroying old) */
/* if ( glyph->format != FT_GLYPH_FORMAT_BITMAP ) */
/* { */
- /* error = FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap( &glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_DEFAULT, */
+ /* error = FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap( &glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL, */
/* 0, 1 ); */
/* if ( error ) // `glyph' unchanged */
/* ... */