Re: [Devel] Postscript hinter is now part of the HEAD branch

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Will the new pshinter take into account flex hints?  If not, do you plan on
adding support for these?

Thanks,

Tom

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David Turner wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   Just to inform you that the Postscript hinting module is now commited
>   to the HEAD branch of the CVS repository. Very fortunately, the merge
>   brought a lot less conflicts that what I expected.
>
>   Note however that:
>
>     - the module is not 100% complete: a few things need to be finished
>       regarding overshoot suppression and "stem3" hints, but results are
>       pleasant. I also want to experiment with a few other things in the
>       core algorithms..
>
>     - only the "type1" module is currently using it. I'll need to update
>       the "cid" and "cff" modules as well, but this should be relatively
>       straightforward..
>
>     - you _need_ the "Jam" build tool to compile the current code, since
>       I've not written "rules.mk" file for the old Make-based build system
>       (any volunteer btw ??)
>
>     - there are still issues with diagonals, since hinting these in real-time
>       is rather challenging. Regarding monochrome rendering however, I believe
>       that a proper way to deal with them is to write a specific rasterizer
>       that doesn't implement the same filling and dropout-control than the
>       current one (which was designed on requirements of the TrueType
>       specification). This _may_ take some time..
>
>     - I have also fixed "glnames.py" and "pstables.h" to get rid of the
>       glyph names "bug" reported by Jacob Jansen..
>
>     - and don't forget, your mileage may vary regarding quality of hinted
>       glyphs, mostly depending on the font you're using..
>
>
>   Seems we'll release 2.0.6 in a very short time, he he he :-)
>
>   I'll now try to fix the CVS commit log e-mail scripts again, since these
>   are probably the last thing to do, with automatic "current" and "diff"
>   packages generation in the FTP directory..
>
> Cheers,
>
> - David
>
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