Re: [ft-devel] Regression with slight hinting

[David Turner]

Hi Behdad,

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:24:15 -0500, "Behdad Esfahbod" <address@hidden> said:
> Hi,
> 
> So, this is not something new, fcrozat already raised this after 2.2.1
> was release, but since this has not improved in 2.3.0, I'm reposing.
> 
> There is a Fedora bug about this:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198082
> 
> None and medium (in gnome-font-properties speak) settings are fine and
> render identically before and after.  Not for slight.  Note that there
> is a chance that the after shot is using TrueType Luxi while the before
> is using Type1 Luxi, but I don't think that really matters much, since
> the other hinting modes match in rendering.
> 

It matters because since 2.2.1, selecting the light hinting mode will
enforce the auto-hinter, independent of the native font format.

I have commited some changes to the auto-hinter, please check to see
if the new version satisfies you. There is no way we're going to reproduce
exactly the light hinting from 2.1.10 for various reasons, but this one
should be pretty good too.

Regards,

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