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

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> 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...
>
> Doh, wait, you need to render fractionally shifted bitmaps.  Well,
> you can always shift the hinted outline right before shipping it off
> to the rasterizer, no?  No need to bother the font engine with this?

Somehow the hinting engine must know the fractional offset, otherwise
it can't do sub-pixel hinting – either an explicit argument, or the
position of the left phantom point, or...


    Werner