Re: [ft-devel] A review of ttfauthint by designer of Siri

[vernon adams]

On 10/02/12 17:41, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Vern,
>
>
> thanks for the images.
>
> > My point is that the freetype autohinter should (if possible) render
> > x-heights&  cap heights the same as the freetype bytecode
> > interpreter.  Though from your comment below, i think you are saying
> > it's not a good idea to force freetype to do that.
>
> Well, `force' is the wrong word.  I simply don't think that the
> autohinter can make the same decisions as the bytecode interpreter.


It's interesting, to my eyes the fonts render best under 'forced 
auto-hinting on', when viewing in ftview for example. Better than 
manually hinted fonts rendered with the bytecode interpreter.

Can anyone tell me what the equivalent is of 'forced auto-hinting on' 
under fontconfig settings? is it 'hinting' false, 'Autohinter' true, 
hintstyle 'full' ?

The fontconfig documentation suggest that hintstyle full works best with 
the bytecode interpreter. How does hintstyle effect BCI hinting and/or 
the autohinter?

-vern