<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm working on text rendering and I noticed that when I use the 'glyph positions' </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">advance_x of harfbuzz the textlooks not as good as when I use the advance_x</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that Freetype provides me. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I did some tests and created this image which shows that the text positioned </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">with harfbuzz looks a bit wierd. See the green arrows. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/diederick/16688792514/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/diederick/16688792514/</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></blockquote><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​I validated my code with this SDL/FreeType/Harfbuzz example, and the results</div></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">were identical. </div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/acarrico/ex-sdl-freetype-harfbuzz">https://github.com/acarrico/ex-sdl-freetype-harfbuzz</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Updated version for SDL2:</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><a href="https://gist.github.com/roxlu/9c4d5e650eae1f9e1545">https://gist.github.com/roxlu/9c4d5e650eae1f9e1545</a><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><br></div></font></div></blockquote><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Does someone knows why there is this difference in quality?</div></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Thanks,</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">D​</div><br></font></div></div>