Re: [Freetype] ft_outline_reverse_fill broken?

[henry . maddocks]

Good point. I didn't think of that. I really don't want to test the 
whole contour. I'm working with chinese fonts at the moment and they are 
huge. No way round it though:(

henry


On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 11:53  AM, Changyuan Hu wrote:

> Congratulations! However, testing first 3 vertices in the contour is 
> not safe, since the contour may be concave at this position. In this 
> case, you will get a wrong result unless you test the signed area of 
> the whole contour.
>
> Changyuan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: November 28, 2001 5:39 PM
> > To: Changyuan Hu
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Freetype] ft_outline_reverse_fill broken?
> >
> >
> > Just tried it. I didn't test the  whole contour though, just the 
> > first 3
> > vertices in the contour.   It works great:)
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > henry
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 10:52  AM, Changyuan Hu wrote:
> >
> > > I selected character "I" as the representative then test its contour
> > > direction using simple the polygon area method. Any available single
> > > contour glyph can be used as the representative.
> > "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
> > kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic 
> > pills
> > and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson,
> > Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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