[PATCH 2/2] gdi32: Clip font glyphs to fit within text metrics.

[Max TenEyck Woodbury]

On 04/19/2013 02:46 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Sam Edwards <cfsworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This change only affects malformed fonts that have glyphs with splines
>> that go above the maximum ascent as specified in the font's hhea/os2
>> table. For that reason, any tests for this change would have to include
>> a malformed font, so I did not write tests. If we want in-tree tests,
>> we'll need to figure out how to include a malformed font to test against.
>
> Please add a test case, Wine test suite already includes custom fonts,
> you can either use an existing font, or add a new one.
>
As I understand it, some fonts deliberately have glyphs larger than
their metrics bounding boxes.  Clipping them is almost certainly not a
good idea.