Re: glyph info

[crusius_at_stanford . edu]

In reply to Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
>
>
>> hi, i have a problem and hope someone can help.  my problem is that
>> i need the horizAdvance of the glyphs i'm drawing in an unit not
>> related to the bitmap dimensions.  more specifically, i need the
>> horizAdvance in 1/65536 pt units, no matter what is the scale i
>> render the bitmap in (which will normally be on the order of 10
>> pixels wide).  is there any simple way to do it
>
>I suppose that you don't mean `scaling' but `resolution'.
>
>Further I assume that you use FreeType 2.

that's right.

>On a per-glyph basis, the field face->glyph->linearHoriAdvance (after
>a call to FT_Load_Glyph) contains the advance width in original font
>units if the flag FT_LOAD_UNSCALED_LINEAR has been used.  Together
>with face->units_per_EM you should be able to do what you want.

that flag does not seem to exist (although it is mentioned in the
documentation). are you talking about FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE instead? if i
use that flag i always get linearHoriAdvance=0 for cmr10.pfb... the
horiAdvance seems to be correct for the font, though.

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