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Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:39:39 +0200 (CEST)

>> It's not clear to me what you want.  Please elaborate.
> 
> When you use subpixels for glyphs, you might as well use subpixels
> for the advance width ;) I think using the TrueType interpreter v38
> and v40 should turn on fractional advance widths for TrueType
> fonts.  Maybe you can turn it on for all TrueType fonts because v35
> fonts will round the phantom points anyway?

Fractional advance widths imply that you do have to send a glyph
positioned at a sub-pixel position to the TT engine.  It's something
to investigate how to do that...


    Werner

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