Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language

A computer program product for use in a computing system that has access to a set of control points, the set of control points for generating an outline of a graphical object, the outline being utilized to determine how the graphical object is rendered, the position of some portions of the outline potentially being constrained to pre-determined locations, the computer program product for implementing a method for using a font-hinting language to represent an iterative solution to a constraint, the computer program product comprising computer-executable instructions on a physical computer readable storage medium that, when executed by a processor, cause the computing system to perform the following:

• identify features of the graphical object by identifying a set of control points and identifying a more complex constraint that cannot be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font hinting language;
• access the more complex constraint that cannot be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font-hinting language, the more complex constraint constraining at least a portion of the outline;
• decompose, without rendering, the more complex constraint into a plurality of simpler constraints that can be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font-hinting language;
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• represent each of the simpler constraints in corresponding font-hinting language instructions that are iteratively processed to at least approximate a solution to the more complex constraint.