Add a test for bitmap font metrics to ensure that they match
the Windows ones
Dmitry Timoshkov
dmitry at codeweavers.com
Fri Mar 17 06:51:36 CST 2006
"Huw Davies" <huw at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>> Looks like it's a sfnt2fnt bug and not a fontforge or FreeType problem.
>>
>> This patch tests bitmap font metrics to ensure that they match the Windows
>> ones. The patch discovers a bug in sfnt2fnt which causes Courier font to
>> have wrong ascent and descent values (13/0 instead of 11/2). courier.ttf
>> generated by fontforge from courier.sfd has correct values, but courier-*.fnt
>> files have wrong values.
>
> Well we get the ascent from the height of the Aring glyph. As far as
> I can tell this is 11 in fontforge. So somewhere between fontforge's
> export as a ttf and sfnt2fnt reading that ttf (using FreeType) the
> value has changed to 13. Hence my comment that either fontforge or
> FreeType is doing something odd.
I was going to point out that I tried to replace in tools/sfnt2fnt.c
ascent = face->glyph->metrics.height >> 6;
by
ascent = face->size->metrics.ascender >> 6;
which is what is used in dlls/gdi/freetype.c,get_bitmap_text_metrics(),
but that breaks MS Sans Serif bitmap fonts. It looks like fontforge
doesn't allow to have a different font header for each different bitmap
size in the bitmap font.
--
Dmitry.
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