https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=158573 ------- Comment #42 from david@freetype.org 2006-10-18 08:17 MST ------- Oh my god, these fonts are so wicked !! the control polygon is even self-intersection in patch 101863, while the outline isn't. there are local extrema on bezier curves everywhere; there is no way we're going to correctly embolden them with our "quick" algorithm, even if we improve the heuristics. besides, checking the orientation of each contour is not going to help a lot, because you'll still need to decide wether the contour is an interior or exterior one, which quickly becomes non trivial if you're not on the glyph's bounding box. we're either going to some *serious* code to deal with these or think differently about the problem (e.g. embolden the bitmaps, instead of the vectors) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.