(mgp-users 00383) Re: Some magic point questions/comments/bugs

["Dean S. Messing" <deanm@sharplabs.com>]

 :: >Q4.
 :: >---
 :: >Why does the beautiful MTCORSVA.TTF font from the Microsoft
 :: >Windows 98 / Office 2000 distribution not render well?  Pieces of
 :: >letters are missing.  Yet they render perfectly when I use ftview from
 :: >the freetype-1.3.1 distribution.  Try, for example
 :: >and see if the rendering is any good.
 :: 
 ::         could you check if you have freetype font support in your binary?
 ::         try "mgp -V foo.mgp" to check what kind of fonts are actually used.
 :: 
 :: itojun

Thanks itojun-san for looking into this.
Yes,  freetype font support is in my binary.
In fact

`ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/mgp' returns:

	libttf.so.2 => /usr/lib/libttf.so.2 (0x4001d000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4004a000)
	libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40068000)
	libungif.so.4 => /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 (0x40087000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008f000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4009d000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4014f000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40236000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Note the top line says its finding my ttf shared library.

Also, `mgp -V icip2000.mgp' returns

      trying to open font "/opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/arial.ttf"
      font "/opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/arial.ttf" opened successfully
      trying to open font "GOTHIC.TTF"
      trying to open font "/opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF"
      font "/opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF" opened successfully
      2 charmaps for font /opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF code 0049
      2 charmaps for font /opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF code 006d
      2 charmaps for font /opt/deanm/win/windows/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF code 0070

with lots more lines like this.  It finds every font I use
(because I only use fonts that I know I have :-).  But the
rendering is poor on several of them even though they render
perfectly with the native Freetype renderer used by `ftview'.

Note these are microscoft ttf fonts from the windows 98/Office 2000
distribution.  If you like, I can supply you with the particular
fonts that render poorly as well as a screen dump so you can
see for yourself.  Let me know.

Dean