Re: [Fontforge-users] missing extrema / outer path direction

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:20, Mark-Jan Nederhof wrote:
>         > noticed
>         > that "Find Problems" reports missing extrema even after
>         doing
>         > Ctrl-Shift-X
>         > once. It seems that adding the required extrema may create
>         _new_
>         > missing extrema.
>         
>         Can you give me a test case where this happens?
> 
> Sent to Mr. Williams.
No, it isn't introducing new ones. It simply isn't adding an extremum
which is extremely close to an already existing point.

> So far, the rasterized glyphs look quite acceptable. Remember however
> that no one would
> want to print Egyptian hieroglyphs at 10pt font size. The minimum you
> find in printed 
> books is perhaps 25pt. I suspect that the rasterization problems that
> you refer to are not so 
> relevant at larger font sizes.
Good point.