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/* OpenTypeFont.java -- Manages OpenType and TrueType fonts.
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package gnu.java.awt.font.opentype;

import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontFormatException;
import java.awt.font.FontRenderContext;
import java.awt.font.GlyphVector;
import java.awt.font.OpenType;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.text.CharacterIterator;
import java.util.Locale;

import gnu.java.awt.font.FontDelegate;
import gnu.java.awt.font.GNUGlyphVector;
import gnu.java.awt.font.autofit.AutoHinter;
import gnu.java.awt.font.opentype.truetype.TrueTypeScaler;
import gnu.java.awt.font.opentype.truetype.Zone;


/**
 * A font that takes its data from OpenType or TrueType font tables.
 *
 * <p>OpenType is an extension of the TrueType font format. In addition
 * to tables for names, kerning or layout, it also stores the shapes
 * of individual glyphs. Three formats are recognized for glyphs:
 * Quadratic splines (classic TrueType), cubic splines (PostScript),
 * and bitmaps.
 *
 * @see <a
 * href="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/opentype/">Adobe&#x2019;s
 * OpenType specification</a>
 *
 * @see <a
 * href="http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/">Apple&#x2019;s</code>
 * TrueType specification</a>
 *
 * @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
 */
public final class OpenTypeFont
  implements FontDelegate
{
  static final int TAG_OTTO = 0x4f54544f; // 'OTTO'
  static final int TAG_SFNT = 0x73666e74; // 'sfnt'
  static final int TAG_TRUE = 0x74727565; // 'true'
  static final int TAG_TTCF = 0x74746366; // 'ttcf'
  static final int TAG_ZAPF = 0x5a617066; // 'Zapf'
  

  /**
   * A buffer containing the font data. Note that this may well be an
   * instance of the subclass MappedByteBuffer, in which case the
   * virtual memory subsystem can more efficiently handle requests for
   * font data. This is especially recommended for large font files
   * that contain many glyphs that are rarely accessed.
   */
  ByteBuffer buf;


  /**
   * The number of glyphs in this font.
   */
  final int numGlyphs;

  int[] tableTag, tableStart, tableLength;


  /**
   * The version of the font in 16.16 fixed-point encoding, for
   * example 0x00010000 for version 1.0. There are also two special
   * version IDs used by fonts for Apple Macintosh, namely 'true'
   * (0x74727565) and 'typ1'. OpenType fonts sometimes have 'OTTO' as
   * their version.
   */
  private int version;

  
  /**
   * The number of font units per em. For fonts with TrueType
   * outlines, this is usually a power of two (such as 2048). For
   * OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines, other values are
   * acceptable (such as 1000).
   */
  public int unitsPerEm;


  /**
   * A factor to convert font units into ems. This value is <code>1 /
   * unitsPerEm</code>.
   */
  private float emsPerUnit;


  /**
   * The scaler to which the actual scaling work is delegated.
   */
  private Scaler scaler;
  

  /**
   * A delegate object for mapping Unicode UCS-4 codepoints to glyph
   * IDs.
   */
  private CharGlyphMap cmap;


  /**
   * A delegate object for providing a name for each glyph.
   */
  private GlyphNamer glyphNamer;

  private Hinter hinter;

  /**
   * Constructs an OpenType or TrueType font.
   *
   * @param buf a buffer with the contents of the font file. It is
   * recommended to use a <code>MappedByteBuffer</code> for very
   * large font files.
   *
   * @param offsetTablePosition the position of the OpenType offset
   * table in the font file. The offset table of most OpenType and
   * TrueType fonts starts at position 0.  However, so-called TrueType
   * Collections support multiple OpenType fonts in a single file,
   * which allows sharing some glyphs between fonts. If many glyphs
   * are shared (for example all the Kanji glyphs between multiple
   * Japanese fonts), the space savings can be considerable. In that
   * case, the offset table of each individual font would start at its
   * own position.
   *
   * @throws java.awt.FontFormatException if the font data is
   * not in OpenType or TrueType format.
   */
  OpenTypeFont(ByteBuffer buf, int offsetTablePosition)
    throws FontFormatException
  {
    int numTables, searchRange, entrySelector, rangeShift;

    //buf = buf.duplicate();
    this.buf = buf;
    buf.limit(buf.capacity());
    buf.position(offsetTablePosition);

    /* Check that the font data is in a supported format. */
    version = buf.getInt();
    switch (version)
    {
    case 0x00010000:        // Microsoft TrueType
    case OpenType.TAG_TYP1: // Adobe PostScript embeded in Apple SFNT ('typ1')
    case TAG_SFNT:          // Apple TrueType
    case TAG_TRUE:          // Apple TrueType
    case TAG_OTTO:          // OpenType
      break;

    default:
      throw new FontFormatException("not in OpenType or TrueType format");
    }

    numTables = buf.getShort();
    searchRange = buf.getShort();
    entrySelector = buf.getShort();
    rangeShift = buf.getShort();

    tableTag = new int[numTables];
    tableStart = new int[numTables];
    tableLength = new int[numTables];
    int lastTag = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < numTables; i++)
    {
      tableTag[i] = buf.getInt();
      if (lastTag >= tableTag[i])
        throw new FontFormatException("unordered OpenType table");

      buf.getInt(); // ignore checksum
      tableStart[i] = buf.getInt();
      tableLength[i] = buf.getInt();

      //System.out.println(tagToString(tableTag[i]) + ", " + tableLength[i]);
    }

    ByteBuffer head = getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_HEAD);
    if ((head.getInt(0) != 0x00010000)
        || (head.getInt(12) != 0x5f0f3cf5))
        throw new FontFormatException("unsupported head version");

    unitsPerEm = head.getChar(18);
    emsPerUnit = 1.0f / (float) unitsPerEm;


    ByteBuffer maxp = getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_MAXP);
    int maxpVersion = maxp.getInt(0);
    switch (maxpVersion)
    {
    case 0x00005000: /* version 0.5, with wrong fractional part */
      numGlyphs = maxp.getChar(4);
      break;

    case 0x00010000: /* version 1.0 */
      numGlyphs = maxp.getChar(4);
      scaler = new TrueTypeScaler(unitsPerEm,
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_HHEA),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_HMTX),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_VHEA),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_VMTX),
                                  maxp,
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_CVT),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_FPGM),
                                  /* loca format */ head.getShort(50),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_LOCA),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_GLYF),
                                  getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_PREP));
      break;

    default:
      throw new FontFormatException("unsupported maxp version");
    }
  }


  /**
   * Determines the index of a table into the offset table.  The
   * result can be used to find the offset and length of a table, as
   * in <code>tableStart[getTableIndex(TAG_NAME)]</code>.
   *
   * @param tag the table identifier, for instance
   * <code>OpenType.TAG_NAME</code>.
   *
   * @return the index of that table into the offset table, or
   * -1 if the font does not contain the table specified by
   * <code>tag</code>.
   */
  private int getTableIndex(int tag)
  {
    /* FIXME: Since the font specification requires tableTag[] to be
     * ordered, one should do binary search here.
     */
    for (int i = 0; i < tableTag.length; i++)
      if (tableTag[i] == tag)
        return i;
    return -1;
  }
  
  

  /**
   * Returns the name of the family to which this font face belongs,
   * for example <i>&#x201c;Univers&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the family name.
   */
  public synchronized String getFamilyName(Locale locale)
  {
    String name;

    if (locale == null)
      locale = Locale.getDefault();

    name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FAMILY, locale);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FAMILY, Locale.ENGLISH);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FAMILY, /* any language */ null);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FULL, locale);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FULL, /* any language */ null);
    return name;
  }


  /**
   * Returns the name of this font face inside the family, for example
   * <i>&#x201c;Light&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the name of the face inside its family.
   */
  public synchronized String getSubFamilyName(Locale locale)
  {
    String name;

    if (locale == null)
      locale = Locale.getDefault();

    name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_SUBFAMILY, locale);
    if (name == null)
    {
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_SUBFAMILY, Locale.ENGLISH);
      if ("Regular".equals(name))
        name = null;
    }

    if (name == null)
    {
      String lang = locale.getLanguage();
      if ("de".equals(lang))
        name = "Standard";
      else if ("fr".equals(lang))
        name = "Standard";
      else if ("it".equals(lang))
        name = "Normale";
      else if ("nl".equals(lang))
        name = "Normaal";
      else if ("fi".equals(lang))
        name = "Normaali";
      else if ("sv".equals(lang))
        name = "Normal";
      else
        name = "Regular";
    }

    return name;
  }
  
  

  /**
   * Returns the full name of this font face, for example
   * <i>&#x201c;Univers Light&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the face name.
   */
  public synchronized String getFullName(Locale locale)
  {
    String name;

    if (locale == null)
      locale = Locale.getDefault();

    name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FULL, locale);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FULL, Locale.ENGLISH);
    if (name == null)
      name = getName(NameDecoder.NAME_FULL, /* any language */ null);

    return name;
  }


  /**
   * Returns the PostScript name of this font face, for example
   * <i>&#x201c;Univers-Light&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @return the PostScript name, or <code>null</code> if the font
   * does not provide a PostScript name.
   */
  public synchronized String getPostScriptName()
  {
    return getName(NameDecoder.NAME_POSTSCRIPT, /* any language */ null);
  }


  /**
   * Returns the number of glyphs in this font face.
   */
  public int getNumGlyphs()
  {
    /* No synchronization is needed because the number of glyphs is
     * set in the constructor, and it cannot change during the
     * lifetime of the object.
     */
    return numGlyphs;
  }
  

  /**
   * Returns the index of the glyph which gets displayed if the font
   * cannot map a Unicode code point to a glyph. Many fonts show this
   * glyph as an empty box.
   */
  public int getMissingGlyphCode()
  {
    /* No synchronization is needed because the result is constant. */
    return 0;
  }


  /**
   * The font&#x2019;s name table, or <code>null</code> if this
   * table has not yet been accessed.
   */
  private ByteBuffer nameTable;


  /**
   * Extracts a String from the font&#x2019;s name table.
   *
   * @param name the numeric TrueType or OpenType name ID.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which names shall be localized, or
   * <code>null</code> if the locale does mot matter because the name
   * is known to be language-independent (for example, because it is
   * the PostScript name).
   */
  private String getName(int name, Locale locale)
  {
    if (nameTable == null)
      nameTable = getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_NAME);
    return NameDecoder.getName(nameTable, name, locale);
  }


  /**
   * Returns the version of the font.
   *
   * @see java.awt.font.OpenType#getVersion
   *
   * @return the version in 16.16 fixed-point encoding, for example
   * 0x00010000 for version 1.0.
   */
  public int getVersion()
  {
    /* No synchronization is needed because the version is set in the
     * constructor, and it cannot change during the lifetime of the
     * object.
     */
    return version;
  }


  /**
   * Creates a view buffer for an OpenType table. The caller can
   * access the returned buffer without needing to synchronize access
   * from multiple threads.
   *
   * @param tag the table identifier, for example
   * <code>OpenType.GLYF</code>.
   *
   * @return a slice of the underlying buffer containing the table, or
   * <code>null</code> if the font does not contain the requested
   * table.
   */
  public synchronized ByteBuffer getFontTable(int tag)
  {
    int index, start, len;
    ByteBuffer result;

    index = getTableIndex(tag);
    if (index < 0)
      return null;

    start = tableStart[index];
    len = tableLength[index];
    buf.limit(start + len).position(start);
    result = buf.slice();
    result.limit(len);
    return result;
  }
  

  /**
   * Returns the size of one of the tables in the font,
   * or -1 if the table does not exist.
   */
  public int getFontTableSize(int tag)
  {
    int index = getTableIndex(tag);
    if (index == -1)
      return index;
    return tableLength[index];
  }


  private CharGlyphMap getCharGlyphMap()
  {
    if (cmap != null)
      return cmap;
 
    synchronized (this)
    {
      if (cmap == null)
      {
        int index = getTableIndex(OpenType.TAG_CMAP);
        int start = tableStart[index];
        buf.limit(start + tableLength[index]).position(start);
        cmap = CharGlyphMap.forTable(buf);
      }
      return cmap;
    }
  }



  /**
   * Looks up a glyph in the font&#x2019;s <code>cmap</code> tables,
   * without performing any glyph substitution or reordering. Because
   * of this limitation, this method cannot be used for script systems
   * that need advanced glyph mapping, such as Arabic, Korean, or even
   * Latin with exotic accents.
   *
   * <p>It is safe to call this method from any thread.
   *
   * @param ucs4 the Unicode codepoint in the 32-bit Unicode character
   * set UCS-4. Because UTF-16 surrogates do not correspond to a single
   * glyph, it does not make sense to pass them here.
   *
   * @return the glyph index, or zero if the font does not contain
   * a glyph for the specified codepoint.
   */
  public int getGlyph(int ucs4)
  {
    return getCharGlyphMap().getGlyph(ucs4);
  }

  
  /**
   * Creates a GlyphVector by mapping each character in a
   * CharacterIterator to the corresponding glyph.
   *
   * <p>The mapping takes only the font&#x2019;s <code>cmap</code>
   * tables into consideration. No other operations (such as glyph
   * re-ordering, composition, or ligature substitution) are
   * performed. This means that the resulting GlyphVector will not be
   * correct for text in languages that have complex
   * character-to-glyph mappings, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, or
   * Thai.
   *
   * @param font the font object that the created GlyphVector
   * will return when it gets asked for its font. This argument is
   * needed because the public API works with java.awt.Font,
   * not with some private delegate like OpenTypeFont.
   *
   * @param frc the font rendering parameters that are used for
   * measuring glyphs. The exact placement of text slightly depends on
   * device-specific characteristics, for instance the device
   * resolution or anti-aliasing. For this reason, any measurements
   * will only be accurate if the passed
   * <code>FontRenderContext</code> correctly reflects the relevant
   * parameters. Hence, <code>frc</code> should be obtained from the
   * same <code>Graphics2D</code> that will be used for drawing, and
   * any rendering hints should be set to the desired values before
   * obtaining <code>frc</code>.
   *
   * @param ci a CharacterIterator for iterating over the
   * characters to be displayed.
   */
  public synchronized GlyphVector createGlyphVector(Font font,
                                                    FontRenderContext frc,
                                                    CharacterIterator ci)
  {
    // Initialize hinter if necessary.
    checkHinter(FontDelegate.FLAG_FITTED);

    CharGlyphMap cmap;    
    int numGlyphs;
    int[] glyphs;
    int glyph;
    int c;

    cmap = getCharGlyphMap();
    numGlyphs = ci.getEndIndex() - ci.getBeginIndex();
    glyphs = new int[numGlyphs];
    glyph = 0;
    for (c = ci.first(); c != CharacterIterator.DONE; c = ci.next())
    {
      /* handle surrogate pairs */
      if (c >> 10 == 0x36) // U+D800 .. U+DBFF: High surrogate
        c = (((c & 0x3ff) << 10) | (ci.next() & 0x3ff)) + 0x10000;
      glyphs[glyph] = cmap.getGlyph(c);
      glyph += 1;
    }

    /* If we had surrogates, the allocated array is too large.
     * Because this will occur very rarely, it seems acceptable to
     * re-allocate a shorter array and copy the contents around.
     */
    if (glyph != numGlyphs)
    {
      int[] newGlyphs = new int[glyph];
      System.arraycopy(glyphs, 0, newGlyphs, 0, glyph);
      glyphs = newGlyphs;
    }

    return new GNUGlyphVector(this, font, frc, glyphs);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the glyph code for the specified character.
   *
   * @param c the character to map
   *
   * @return the glyph code
   */
  public int getGlyphIndex(int c)
  {
    return getCharGlyphMap().getGlyph(c);
  }

  /**
   * Determines the advance width for a glyph.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose advance width is to be
   * determined.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @param advance a point whose <code>x</code> and <code>y</code>
   * fields will hold the advance in each direction. It is possible
   * that both values are non-zero, for example if
   * <code>transform</code> is a rotation, or in the case of Urdu
   * fonts.
   */
  public synchronized void getAdvance(int glyphIndex,
                                      float pointSize,
                                      AffineTransform transform,
                                      boolean antialias,
                                      boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                      boolean horizontal,
                                      Point2D advance)
  {
    /* Delegate the measurement to the scaler.  The synchronization is
     * needed because the scaler is not synchronized.
     */
    scaler.getAdvance(glyphIndex, pointSize, transform,
                      antialias, fractionalMetrics, horizontal,
                      advance);
  }


  /**
   * Returns the shape of a glyph.
   *
   * @param glyph the glyph whose advance width is to be determined
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts, this
   * parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional
   * metrics, <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel
   * boundary.
   *
   * @return the scaled and grid-fitted outline of the specified
   * glyph, or <code>null</code> for bitmap fonts.
   */
  public synchronized GeneralPath getGlyphOutline(int glyph,
                                                  float pointSize,
                                                  AffineTransform transform,
                                                  boolean antialias,
                                                  boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                                  int flags)
  {
    /* The synchronization is needed because the scaler is not
     * synchronized.
     */
    checkHinter(flags);
    return scaler.getOutline(glyph, pointSize, transform,
                             antialias, fractionalMetrics, hinter, flags);
  }

  /**
   * Fetches the raw glyph outline for the specified glyph index. This is used
   * for the autofitter only ATM and is otherwise not usable for outside code.
   *
   * @param glyph the glyph index to fetch
   * @param transform the transform to apply
   *
   * @return the raw outline of that glyph
   */
  public synchronized Zone getRawGlyphOutline(int glyph,
                                              AffineTransform transform)
  {
    return scaler.getRawOutline(glyph, transform);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a name for the specified glyph. This is useful for
   * generating PostScript or PDF files that embed some glyphs of a
   * font.
   *
   * <p><b>Names are not unique:</b> Under some rare circumstances,
   * the same name can be returned for different glyphs. It is
   * therefore recommended that printer drivers check whether the same
   * name has already been returned for antoher glyph, and make the
   * name unique by adding the string ".alt" followed by the glyph
   * index.</p>
   *
   * <p>This situation would occur for an OpenType or TrueType font
   * that has a <code>post</code> table of format 3 and provides a
   * mapping from glyph IDs to Unicode sequences through a
   * <code>Zapf</code> table. If the same sequence of Unicode
   * codepoints leads to different glyphs (depending on contextual
   * position, for example, or on typographic sophistication level),
   * the same name would get synthesized for those glyphs.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose name the caller wants to
   * retrieve.
   */
  public synchronized String getGlyphName(int glyphIndex)
  {
    if (glyphNamer == null)
      glyphNamer = GlyphNamer.forTables(numGlyphs,
                                        getFontTable(OpenType.TAG_POST),
                                        getFontTable(TAG_ZAPF));

    return glyphNamer.getGlyphName(glyphIndex);
  }


  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the highest
   * ascender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialiased <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the ascent, which usually is a positive number.
   */
  public synchronized float getAscent(float pointSize,
                                      AffineTransform transform,
                                      boolean antialiased,
                                      boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                      boolean horizontal)
  {
    return scaler.getAscent(pointSize, transform,
                            antialiased, fractionalMetrics,
                            horizontal);
  }


  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the lowest
   * descender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialiased <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the descent, which usually is a nagative number.
   */
  public synchronized float getDescent(float pointSize,
                                       AffineTransform transform,
                                       boolean antialiased,
                                       boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                       boolean horizontal)
  {
    return scaler.getDescent(pointSize, transform,
                             antialiased, fractionalMetrics,
                             horizontal);
  }


  /**
   * Converts a four-byte tag identifier into a String that can be
   * displayed when debugging this class.
   *
   * @param tag the tag as an <code>int</code>.
   *
   * @return the tag in human-readable form, for example
   * <code>name</code> or <code>glyf</code>.
   */
  static String tagToString(int tag)
  {
    char[] c = new char[4];
    c[0] = (char) ((tag >> 24) & 0xff);
    c[1] = (char) ((tag >> 16) & 0xff);
    c[2] = (char) ((tag >> 8) & 0xff);
    c[3] = (char) (tag & 0xff);
    return new String(c);
  }

  /**
   * Checks if a hinter is installed and installs one when not.
   */
  private void checkHinter(int flags)
  {
    // When another hinting impl gets added (maybe a true TrueType hinter)
    // then add some options here. The Hinter interface might need to be
    // tweaked.
    if (hinter == null)
      {
        try
          {
            hinter = new AutoHinter();
            hinter.init(this);
          }
        catch (Exception ex)
          {
            // Protect from problems inside hinter.
            hinter = null;
            ex.printStackTrace();
          }
      }
    hinter.setFlags(flags);
  }
}