Re: Glyph Outlines in Trace Driver

At 19:25 09/07/2015 +0000, Allen Blaylock wrote:
>Where is the decision made for determining if a glyph is large enough to 
>be rendered as a path as opposed to rendered by freetype?

I don't recall offhand.

>  Looking at FreeType (it looks like gs uses the original FreeType?)

Original ? As in FreeType 1 ? Only if you are using a very elderly version 
of Ghostscript.


>  there are a good deal of tools for extracting just the font outline from 
> a given glyph but the text processing in GS is still fairly opaque to me. 
> For instance I cannot work out how FreeType is called from GS, I cannot 
> find any calls to TT_* functions that are defined in ttobjs.h. Is there 
> documentation of this or some comments that discuss how the glyph 
> processing is done?

No, this is regarded as internals, not any part of the API.


             Ken