Version 1.8

• Integrated the Skia library into the project, which is used to preprocess the shape geometry and eliminate any self-intersections and other irregularities previously unsupported by the software
  • The scanline pass and overlapping contour mode is made obsolete by this step and has been disabled by default. The preprocess step can be disabled by the new -nopreprocess switch and the former enabled by -scanline and -overlap respectively.
  • The project can be built without the Skia library, forgoing the geometry preprocessing feature. This is controlled by the macro definition MSDFGEN_USE_SKIA
• Significantly improved performance of the core algorithm by reusing results from previously computed pixels
• Introduced an additional error correction routine which eliminates MSDF artifacts by analytically predicting results of bilinear interpolation
• Added the possibility to load font glyphs by their index rather than a Unicode value (use the prefix g before the character code in -font argument)
• Added -distanceshift argument that can be used to adjust the center of the distance range in the output distance field
• Fixed several errors in the evaluation of curve distances
• Fixed an issue with paths containing convergent corners (those whose inner angle is zero)
• The algorithm for pseudo-distance computation slightly changed, fixing certain rare edge cases and improving consistency
• Added the ability to supply own FT_Face handle to the msdfgen library
• Minor refactor of the core algorithm