Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: Conversion to quadratic splines

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

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 06:40, Michal Nowakowski wrote:
> I see that the change was made in a hurry... I attached a glyph that when 
> converted to quadratic splines, throws an IError message, but the 
> resulting outline is OK.
I did not receive an attached glyph. I think I've fixed the IError in
the cvs tree.
> 
> Surprisingly, the new algorithm seems to produce /fewer/ points, but when 
> I do element->round->round_to_int, it makes the point number much greater, 
> because all the interpolated points are rounded too, and so they are no 
> longer in the middle of their control points, and so they becomes 
> non-interpolated...
Didn't think of that.
> 
> FF also segfaults when openning any .pfb font or when, having multiple 
> fonts opened, one is closed. But I think You noticed this before.
I'm unaware of this, and have been unable to duplicate it after opening
every .pfb file I've got. Please send an example.