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Re: [ft-devel] rendering speedup


From: mviikki16
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] rendering speedup
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:30:59 +0200
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On 11/20/2015 05:14 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I think it would be best if your changes go into the `bohoomil'
repository!  Note that I can't accept the additional Infinality
patches in its current form – using environment variables is a bad
idea for such a low-level library as FreeType.

The right way would be to add `properties'
(cf. `FT_Property_{Set,Get}) that act on the various FreeType modules.
Erik promised to work on that, but he never did...  Maybe bohoomil is
interested?

Indeed, he even opened a dedicated website (http://bohoomil.com) but I can't find an e-mail address to include him in this discussion... I can't speak of him and his interest but I can make these patches public to anyone with a desire for them.

Regarding the "right way", I agree that environment variables are to be avoided but maybe not completely i.e. allowing just one to select from the various built-in sets of settings and/or pointing to a user specific custom settings file. I'm not familiar with the FT_Property_* API but these settings (in the struct below) are quite many, lots of work to pass them through function calls...


/*
  Infinality settings
 */
typedef struct {
    int autohint_horizontal_stem_darken_strength;
    int autohint_snap_stem_height;
    int autohint_increase_glyph_heights;
    int autohint_vertical_stem_darken_strength;
    int bold_embolden_x_value;
    int bold_embolden_y_value;
    int brightness;
    int chromeos_style_sharpening_strength;
    int contrast;
    float filter_params[6];     /* 1st one used as flag*/
    int fringe_filter_strength;
    float gamma_correction[2];
    int global_embolden_x_value;
    int global_embolden_y_value;
    int grayscale_filter_strength;
    int stem_alignment_strength;
    int stem_fitting_strength;
    int stem_snapping_sliding_scale;
    int use_known_settings_on_selected_fonts;
    int use_various_tweaks;
    int windows_style_sharpening_strength;
} ftinf_t;


/M

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