Re: [ft-devel] Hinting glitch?

[Collyer, Oliver, SI]

Thankyou Werner.

I just quickly loaded it up in Notepad under Windows 7 ClearType and it showed 
the same glitch so I guess it must be a bug in the hints for the font or 
something...

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On 19 Apr 2011, at 13:37, "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>> Attached is how the font "NanumGothic.ttf" (downloadable from here :
>> http://hangeul.naver.com/download.nhn scroll down to the 7 green
>> boxes and it's the third one along the top row) looks:
>> 
>> @ Pixel Size 13
>> 
>> [cid:C2DDDF1F-E850-4D87-B865-45318241A5C1]
>> 
>> Notice how the letter i appears to be too tall in relation to the
>> other letters.
>> 
>> @ Pixel Size 14
>> 
>> Now the i looks ok:
>> 
>> [cid:FD1C366E-B3AA-4D86-ADF4-BCEEB6D2BC19]
>> 
>> When hinted with the FT hinter, the letter i remains consistent.
> 
> I can confirm this observation, however, I don't see any problem with
> the FreeType code, and debugging doesn't show a problem either: There
> is no border case which could cause a rounding to a different vertical
> value.
> 
> It would be interesting to see what Windows does, testing with both
> ClearType switched on and off.
> 
> 
>   Werner