From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to "unfill" a picture? Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4A41EBB5.6020609@elvenkind.com> References: <769ba7780906232013r6e343aabn577e902e5dc340d9@mail.gmail.com> <769ba7780906232355w1a83e0b0p6626ac428535695d@mail.gmail.com> <4A41D671.8030704@elvenkind.com> <769ba7780906240048x697498c3se024c67952dbca85@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245834237 20125 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2009 09:03:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:03:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 24 11:03:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJOOM-0006nt-W9 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD7C1FB6D; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14317-01; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A3D1FB38; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E461FB38 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09878-05-3 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8F71FB14 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n5O92jaL016593 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:46 +0200 Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C605C8026A01 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:45 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090319) In-Reply-To: <769ba7780906240048x697498c3se024c67952dbca85@mail.gmail.com> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=82.95.203.226; country=NL; region=11; city=Rotterdam; latitude=51.9167; longitude=4.5000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.9167,4.5000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 248820963 - b377683d89d0 - 20090624 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51409 Archived-At: Zhichu Chen wrote: > Cool, but just curiosity, metapost can handle fonts right? > How those glyphs don't have this problem? I've read the > specification of the type1 fonts, they don't seem to have > such weird paths, just some borderlines with different > directions. PostScript paths are more advanced than Metapost's draw objects, but Metapost never sees these paths of font glyphs at all. (well, except via the new primitive 'glyph X of', but that indeed does have this problem.) Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________