Re: [Devel] Some news

[Vadim Plessky]

Hi David!

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 11:18 pm, David Turner wrote:
|  Hello everyone,
|
|     I don't have much time tonight nor tomorrow to answer e-mails on the
|     mailing lists. I'd like to make a few comments on recent events though:
[...]
|
|     II. New release:
|
|        I'd like to make a 2.1.3 release pretty quickly, since the current
| code contains noticeable improvements to both the Postscript and auto
| hinters :-)
|

Have solution for rendering of middle part of Latin 'S' 's' glyphs been found?
It's very visible on *light* typefaces.
Besides, thin stems /part of glyphs of so-called "high-contrast typefaces" 
(like Bodoni, Bodoni Poster) are disappearing, creating geometrical 
distortion. Is it possible to fix in some way?

Screenshots are available upon request.

|        However, there are still a few things to fix to prevent nasty color
| fringes to appear with LCD-optimised text rendering under XFree86 4.2
|
|        Another important point is the so-called "FT_Set_Hint_Mode" API.
| I've come to the conclusion that something like the following would be a
| good thing:
|

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