Re: [Devel] Experimental grayscale native TrueType hinting support

[David Turner]

Hi Vadim,

Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 17:29, David Turner wrote:
> |  Hello,
> |
> |     Here's a small patch against the current FreeType 2 sources that
> | "activates" gray-scale specific hinting within the TrueType bytecode
> | interpreter. The changes can be summarized as:
> |
> [...]
>
> David,
>
> Does this mean that you gave up on PS Hinter and Autohinter?

Huh ? What makes you think that ? It has nothing to do with giving up
on the other hinters... !?

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

> My opinion that we need to get PS Hinter working.
> I can tell you that I frecently got laptop with Windows XP pro, with ClearType 
> enabled.
> And many fonts which are terrible in Windows 2000/98, look like very nice in 
> WinXP.
> Including some PS/OpenType fonts.
> Screenshots are available upon request ;-)
Could you send me the fonts privately. I do not have Windows XP, and I suspect
that these fonts are not the same than those shipped with Windows 2000/98

> This means:  we can get good results with PS Hinter.
> I don't think that we should give up on OpenType-AdobeCFF (Type2) and PS Type1 
> fonts.
No, we won't give up there..

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


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