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The true tight bounding box might be very hard to compute short of actual rendering. Instead, it should be rather straightforward to compute the control box which encapsulates all control...

It cuts both ways too. Should you rely on global bbox, you must clip your glyphs just in case. Nobody does that. The global bbox is just auxiliary information.

People do creative stuff with fonts. Some even want to pre-allocate memory for a whole atlas texture in graphics memory before the glyphs are directly rendered there without copying. They...

It is not clear from your report if you use static lib or dynamic lib+dll. In the latter case, try using dll directly on the command line.

Have you seen https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-freetype? It is a part of the [msys2](https://www.msys2.org/) distribution, which is somehow different from WinLibs. I am sure you can work with them to have a windows...

Windows 11 behaves just weirdly when I start standard _pbrush.exe_ from mintty: pbrush.exe starts in the background but mintty also loses focus. Wow.

Paint Brush (pbrush.exe) comes standard with any Windows version since Windows 95. If you can start that from a mintty command line without any focus surprises on Windows 11 then...

I start the programs by typing "pbrush.exe" from the command line. I use Git for Windows which is rather minimalist installation of MSYS2 with mintty, bash, vim, and git. I...

Yes pbrush and mspaint are probably the same. I guess Windows 11 resurrected the old name.

Perhaps this: https://betanews.com/2023/01/05/windows-11-22h2-has-introduced-an-irritating-focus-bug-in-file-explorer/