Re: [Devel] Some news

[Owen Taylor]

Vadim Plessky <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I'm not sure if you saw:

 http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/devel/2002-July/003616.html

It has some theoretical ideas about fixing this (the "Squashing or stretching
of unhinted elements by moving adjacent control points" problem) though
it's certainly not easy.

> 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?

You might be seeing a PS hinter bug with points being snapped to the
wrong side of stems. You can try the attached patch. (I'm not quite
ready to say this patch is fully correct, but it certainly fixes some
problems.)

Regards,
                                               Owen

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