[cairo] Rotated glyph inked area problem

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Sep 14 10:17:56 PDT 2010


On 09/14/10 13:11, Ian Britten wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for asking a stupid question. This issue is caused
>> by the bug(s) in FreeType's scaler, rasterizer etc? Or,
>> caused by API limitation? Behdad's comment in 2 years ago
>> told that 26.6 fixed type is insufficient precision for
>> the purpose.

It's a limitation of FreeType's 26.6 design.  And is going to stay that way
for the foreseeable future AFAICT.  FreeType is simply not the best rasterizer
at small sizes.

behdad


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