Re: [Fontforge-devel] Conversion to quadratic splines

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

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:51, Johan Winge wrote:
> Well, I think I personally like the previous algorithm more (especially  
> after the patch that followed my latest request - thank you for that  
> one!).
I've added an option so that if you set
  FONTFORGE_CONFIG_NON_SYMMETRIC_QUADRATIC_CONVERSION
in configure-pfaedit.h then you'll get the old behavior.

> My belief is that, since (as far as I know) converting to quadratic  
> splines is done only with the intention of producing a TrueType font,
Well, I suppose you >might< want to make a quadratic svg font, but that
would be rare.
> ideally, a converting algorithm (be it based on the old or new one) should  
> take the rounding of the control points into consideration when choosing  
> what quadratic splines to produce... (I have tentatively started to try to  
> develop one such algorithm, but I can't say if I'll be successful. ;-) )
Hmm. I could round the points before checking the approx. I'll think
about this.
> 
> Back to the new algorithm -- the attached font contains some glyphs, all  
> of which make the latest Fontforge freeze when trying to convert them.
It worked fine for me. I've made some changes to cvs, but I never saw
hangs. Just IErrors.