Re: [ft] putting text in a box

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> If you have a negative value in the bbox, this is the amount below
>> the baseline.
>>
> I'm not getting negative values in the bounding box.

Hmm.  You should indeed write a small FreeType test program which
uses the FreeType API directly.  Then you can compare the results.

>> It's easily possible that the glyph `E' descends slightly (due to
>> serifs, for example).
>
> In that case, the descent was definitely not from a serif.  It was a
> value much larger than you'd expect.  I drew the "E", then drew a
> cross-hair at the output positionn and there was really no descent.

Which font?  You might use, say, FontForge to check the glyph's
dimensions.


    Werner