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List:       freetype
Subject:    Re: [Freetype] ft_outline_reverse_fill broken?
From:       henry.maddocks () met ! co ! nz
Date:       2001-11-28 23:20:52
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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: henry.maddocks@met.co.nz [mailto:henry.maddocks@met.co.nz]
>> Sent: November 28, 2001 5:39 PM
>> To: Changyuan Hu
>> Cc: freetype@freetype.org
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but 
when you do it blows your whole leg off." - Bjarne Stroustrup


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