Re: Incorrect glyph stretching and positioning when rendering at different x and y resolutions.

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
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> where FreeSerif.ttf can be downloaded from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip (the
> specific release of FreeFont is important!).

OK.

> The program loads two glyphs (codepoints 0x21d0 LEFTWARDS DOUBLE
> ARROW and 0x21d1 UPWARDS DOUBLE ARROW) and renders them at 200dpi
> horizontal resolution and 100dpi vertical resolution.

[Those are glyphs 'arrowdblleft' and 'arrowdblup' in the font.]

> The result (bad.txt) shows that while the horizontal arrow is
> correctly stretched by a factor of 2 in x, the vertical arrow is
> incorrectly stretched in y instead, and also badly centered in y.

This is a bug in FreeType, probably also related to

  https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?55001

Please open an issue in the Savannah tracker, and thanks for the
report!


    Werner
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