On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:58:33 -0800, Ken wrote:
>
>
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> Mathematically, it's impossible to do in a general way.  Specifically, you
>> can't create a curve that's parallel to an arbitrary cubic or quadratic curve.
>> Since POV uses curves rather than decomposing them into lines (as elefont does)
>> it can't be done without making some major (and ugly) changes in the way TTF
>> objects work.
>
>I must say that you sounded a bit more optimistic about this subject
>that last time we held this discussion (12/16/99) but I will agree
>that it is not a trivial feature to implement.

Well... I guess I wasn't all that optimistic then either.  What I said then,
in short, was that *if* there were a way to generate a parallel curve to a 
given quadratic curve, it could be done.  That's pretty much what I said this
time, too.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

Post a reply to this message