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Re: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:33:16 +0200 (CEST) |
> When we render glyph 58 (letter W) from the font Arial Unicode MS,
> we get asymmetric shape at some sizes. GDI displays the characters
> nicely.
Please be more specific. Which size? Can you provide a snapshot?
> The problem is in tt hinting interpreter apparently, because the
> shape is asymmetric a little if we draw the hinted geometry also.
>
> The quality of text with MS UI Gothic is also bad, when hinting is
> on.
Since I don't have this font I can't comment.
>
> TrueType hinter is used.
> Freetype version 2.1.10.
>
> May be this has been fixed in CVS?
At few sizes there is a slight asymmetry which is hardly noticeable --
most of those artifacts are `bugs' (yes, bugs) in the Windows
rendering engine which does some weird rounding, probably due to some
legacy code...
Werner
RE: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter, Sergey Tolstov, 2006/03/29
RE: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter, Sergey Tolstov, 2006/03/30
RE: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter, Ian Brown, 2006/03/31