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Re: [ft-devel] merged CFF and Type1 hinting code now in master
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] merged CFF and Type1 hinting code now in master |
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:12:37 +0200 (CEST) |
>> I've just committed Ewald's GSoC project to master. Please test!
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> Sorry, I've been a bit out of the loop on this....
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> Does this mean that Type 1 hinting will now be applied to the scaled
> outline?
No. Adobe's CFF engine will now hint Type1 fonts. Since FreeType's
Type1 hinter was notoriously bad and rather unmaintained, this will
give us a large quality improvement.
Werner