311 lines
14 KiB
C
311 lines
14 KiB
C
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/* */
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/* ftttdrv.h */
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/* */
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/* FreeType API for controlling the TrueType driver */
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/* (specification only). */
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/* */
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/* Copyright 2013-2015 by */
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/* David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. */
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/* */
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/* This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, */
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/* modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project */
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/* license, LICENSE.TXT. By continuing to use, modify, or distribute */
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/* this file you indicate that you have read the license and */
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/* understand and accept it fully. */
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/* */
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/***************************************************************************/
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#ifndef __FTTTDRV_H__
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#define __FTTTDRV_H__
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#include <ft2build.h>
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#include FT_FREETYPE_H
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#ifdef FREETYPE_H
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#error "freetype.h of FreeType 1 has been loaded!"
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#error "Please fix the directory search order for header files"
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#error "so that freetype.h of FreeType 2 is found first."
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#endif
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FT_BEGIN_HEADER
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/**************************************************************************
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*
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* @section:
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* tt_driver
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*
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* @title:
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* The TrueType driver
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*
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* @abstract:
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* Controlling the TrueType driver module.
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*
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* @description:
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* While FreeType's TrueType driver doesn't expose API functions by
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* itself, it is possible to control its behaviour with @FT_Property_Set
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* and @FT_Property_Get. The following lists the available properties
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* together with the necessary macros and structures.
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*
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* The TrueType driver's module name is `truetype'.
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*
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* We start with a list of definitions, kindly provided by Greg
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* Hitchcock.
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*
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* _Bi-Level_ _Rendering_
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*
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* Monochromatic rendering, exclusively used in the early days of
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* TrueType by both Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft's GDI interface
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* supported hinting of the right-side bearing point, such that the
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* advance width could be non-linear. Most often this was done to
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* achieve some level of glyph symmetry. To enable reasonable
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* performance (e.g., not having to run hinting on all glyphs just to
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* get the widths) there was a bit in the head table indicating if the
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* side bearing was hinted, and additional tables, `hdmx' and `LTSH', to
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* cache hinting widths across multiple sizes and device aspect ratios.
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*
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* _Font_ _Smoothing_
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*
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* Microsoft's GDI implementation of anti-aliasing. Not traditional
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* anti-aliasing as the outlines were hinted before the sampling. The
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* widths matched the bi-level rendering.
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*
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* _ClearType_ _Rendering_
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*
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* Technique that uses physical subpixels to improve rendering on LCD
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* (and other) displays. Because of the higher resolution, many methods
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* of improving symmetry in glyphs through hinting the right-side
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* bearing were no longer necessary. This lead to what GDI calls
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* `natural widths' ClearType, see
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* http://www.beatstamm.com/typography/RTRCh4.htm#Sec21. Since hinting
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* has extra resolution, most non-linearity went away, but it is still
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* possible for hints to change the advance widths in this mode.
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*
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* _ClearType_ _Compatible_ _Widths_
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*
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* One of the earliest challenges with ClearType was allowing the
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* implementation in GDI to be selected without requiring all UI and
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* documents to reflow. To address this, a compatible method of
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* rendering ClearType was added where the font hints are executed once
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* to determine the width in bi-level rendering, and then re-run in
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* ClearType, with the difference in widths being absorbed in the font
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* hints for ClearType (mostly in the white space of hints); see
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* http://www.beatstamm.com/typography/RTRCh4.htm#Sec20. Somewhat by
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* definition, compatible width ClearType allows for non-linear widths,
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* but only when the bi-level version has non-linear widths.
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*
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* _ClearType_ _Subpixel_ _Positioning_
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*
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* One of the nice benefits of ClearType is the ability to more crisply
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* display fractional widths; unfortunately, the GDI model of integer
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* bitmaps did not support this. However, the WPF and Direct Write
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* frameworks do support fractional widths. DWrite calls this `natural
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* mode', not to be confused with GDI's `natural widths'. Subpixel
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* positioning, in the current implementation of Direct Write,
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* unfortunately does not support hinted advance widths, see
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* http://www.beatstamm.com/typography/RTRCh4.htm#Sec22. Note that the
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* TrueType interpreter fully allows the advance width to be adjusted in
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* this mode, just the DWrite client will ignore those changes.
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*
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* _ClearType_ _Backwards_ _Compatibility_
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*
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* This is a set of exceptions made in the TrueType interpreter to
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* minimize hinting techniques that were problematic with the extra
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* resolution of ClearType; see
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* http://www.beatstamm.com/typography/RTRCh4.htm#Sec1 and
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* http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype.aspx.
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* This technique is not to be confused with ClearType compatible
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* widths. ClearType backwards compatibility has no direct impact on
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* changing advance widths, but there might be an indirect impact on
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* disabling some deltas. This could be worked around in backwards
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* compatibility mode.
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*
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* _Native_ _ClearType_ _Mode_
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*
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* (Not to be confused with `natural widths'.) This mode removes all
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* the exceptions in the TrueType interpreter when running with
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* ClearType. Any issues on widths would still apply, though.
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*
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*/
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/**************************************************************************
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*
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* @property:
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* interpreter-version
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*
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* @description:
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* Currently, two versions are available, representing the bytecode
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* interpreter with and without subpixel hinting support,
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* respectively. The default is subpixel support if
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* TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING is defined, and no subpixel
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* support otherwise (since it isn't available then).
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*
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* If subpixel hinting is on, many TrueType bytecode instructions behave
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* differently compared to B/W or grayscale rendering (except if `native
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* ClearType' is selected by the font). The main idea is to render at a
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* much increased horizontal resolution, then sampling down the created
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* output to subpixel precision. However, many older fonts are not
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* suited to this and must be specially taken care of by applying
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* (hardcoded) font-specific tweaks.
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*
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* Details on subpixel hinting and some of the necessary tweaks can be
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* found in Greg Hitchcock's whitepaper at
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* `http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype.aspx'.
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*
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* The following example code demonstrates how to activate subpixel
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* hinting (omitting the error handling).
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*
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* {
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* FT_Library library;
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* FT_Face face;
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* FT_UInt interpreter_version = TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_38;
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*
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*
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* FT_Init_FreeType( &library );
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*
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* FT_Property_Set( library, "truetype",
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* "interpreter-version",
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* &interpreter_version );
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* }
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*
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* @note:
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* This property can be used with @FT_Property_Get also.
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*
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*/
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/**************************************************************************
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*
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* @enum:
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* TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_XXX
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*
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* @description:
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* A list of constants used for the @interpreter-version property to
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* select the hinting engine for Truetype fonts.
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*
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* The numeric value in the constant names represents the version
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* number as returned by the `GETINFO' bytecode instruction.
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*
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* @values:
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* TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_35 ::
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* Version~35 corresponds to MS rasterizer v.1.7 as used e.g. in
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* Windows~98; only grayscale and B/W rasterizing is supported.
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*
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* TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_38 ::
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* Version~38 corresponds to MS rasterizer v.1.9; it is roughly
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* equivalent to the hinting provided by DirectWrite ClearType (as
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* can be found, for example, in the Internet Explorer~9 running on
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* Windows~7).
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*
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* @note:
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* This property controls the behaviour of the bytecode interpreter
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* and thus how outlines get hinted. It does *not* control how glyph
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* get rasterized! In particular, it does not control subpixel color
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* filtering.
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*
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* If FreeType has not been compiled with configuration option
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* FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING, selecting version~38 causes an
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* `FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature' error.
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*
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* Depending on the graphics framework, Microsoft uses different
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* bytecode and rendering engines. As a consequence, the version
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* numbers returned by a call to the `GETINFO' bytecode instruction are
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* more convoluted than desired.
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*
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* Here are two tables that try to shed some light on the possible
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* values for the MS rasterizer engine, together with the additional
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* features introduced by it.
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*
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* {
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* GETINFO framework version feature
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* -------------------------------------------------------------------
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* 3 GDI (Win 3.1), v1.0 16-bit, first version
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* TrueImage
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* 33 GDI (Win NT 3.1), v1.5 32-bit
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* HP Laserjet
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* 34 GDI (Win 95) v1.6 font smoothing,
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* new SCANTYPE opcode
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* 35 GDI (Win 98/2000) v1.7 (UN)SCALED_COMPONENT_OFFSET
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* bits in composite glyphs
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* 36 MGDI (Win CE 2) v1.6+ classic ClearType
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* 37 GDI (XP and later), v1.8 ClearType
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* GDI+ old (before Vista)
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* 38 GDI+ old (Vista, Win 7), v1.9 subpixel ClearType,
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* WPF Y-direction ClearType,
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* additional error checking
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* 39 DWrite (before Win 8) v2.0 subpixel ClearType flags
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* in GETINFO opcode,
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* bug fixes
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* 40 GDI+ (after Win 7), v2.1 Y-direction ClearType flag
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* DWrite (Win 8) in GETINFO opcode,
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* Gray ClearType
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* }
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*
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* The `version' field gives a rough orientation only, since some
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* applications provided certain features much earlier (as an example,
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* Microsoft Reader used subpixel and Y-direction ClearType already in
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* Windows 2000). Similarly, updates to a given framework might include
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* improved hinting support.
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*
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* {
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* version sampling rendering comment
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* x y x y
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* --------------------------------------------------------------
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* v1.0 normal normal B/W B/W bi-level
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* v1.6 high high gray gray grayscale
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* v1.8 high normal color-filter B/W (GDI) ClearType
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* v1.9 high high color-filter gray Color ClearType
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* v2.1 high normal gray B/W Gray ClearType
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* v2.1 high high gray gray Gray ClearType
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* }
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*
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* Color and Gray ClearType are the two available variants of
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* `Y-direction ClearType', meaning grayscale rasterization along the
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* Y-direction; the name used in the TrueType specification for this
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* feature is `symmetric smoothing'. `Classic ClearType' is the
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* original algorithm used before introducing a modified version in
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* Win~XP. Another name for v1.6's grayscale rendering is `font
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* smoothing', and `Color ClearType' is sometimes also called `DWrite
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* ClearType'. To differentiate between today's Color ClearType and the
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* earlier ClearType variant with B/W rendering along the vertical axis,
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* the latter is sometimes called `GDI ClearType'.
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*
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* `Normal' and `high' sampling describe the (virtual) resolution to
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* access the rasterized outline after the hinting process. `Normal'
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* means 1 sample per grid line (i.e., B/W). In the current Microsoft
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* implementation, `high' means an extra virtual resolution of 16x16 (or
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* 16x1) grid lines per pixel for bytecode instructions like `MIRP'.
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* After hinting, these 16 grid lines are mapped to 6x5 (or 6x1) grid
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* lines for color filtering if Color ClearType is activated.
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*
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* Note that `Gray ClearType' is essentially the same as v1.6's
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* grayscale rendering. However, the GETINFO instruction handles it
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* differently: v1.6 returns bit~12 (hinting for grayscale), while v2.1
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* returns bits~13 (hinting for ClearType), 18 (symmetrical smoothing),
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* and~19 (Gray ClearType). Also, this mode respects bits 2 and~3 for
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* the version~1 gasp table exclusively (like Color ClearType), while
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* v1.6 only respects the values of version~0 (bits 0 and~1).
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*
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* FreeType doesn't provide all capabilities of the most recent
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* ClearType incarnation, thus we identify our subpixel support as
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* version~38.
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*
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*/
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#define TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_35 35
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#define TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_38 38
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/* */
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FT_END_HEADER
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#endif /* __FTTTDRV_H__ */
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/* END */
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