[ft-devel] FreeType Amalgamation 2.4.10rc1 Available!

2012-06-15 Thread Vinnie Falco
FreeType Amalgamation 2.4.10rc1 is now available, based on VER-2-4-10 of the official FreeType repository. It is available in the 'develop' branch of the FreeTypeAmalgam repository: https://github.com/vinniefalco/FreeTypeAmalgam The tag is VER-2-4-10-rc1 Please open issues as needed if there

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 06/15/2012 01:49 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I think, that could work like this: the software has to build and you conture around any glyphe, in a way that the distance to the outline of the glyphe is depending on its form, so that the new outline is closer to sharp edges then to straight

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 06/15/2012 02:48 PM, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: I don't have a link for just the documentation file describing this, but both the code and the PDF user manual explaining how it works are in the Tsukurimashou distribution package available here: Ah, great. Thanks for sharing. behdad

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread mskala
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Vernon Adams wrote: This is very interesting, reminds me of David Kindersley's work on 'optical spacing'. I think that spacing for web and screen fonts could be dealt with like this fairly straightforward because of the role that the pixel grid plays in determining final

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread Nathan Willis
My understanding is that the auto-kerning implemented by Zapf's Hz-program is now patent-free due to 2010 patent expiration. Is anyone familiar with the approach used there? URW supposedly published a book about it, but only in Germany (and doubtless in less-than-Twilight quantity). I've looked

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread vernon adams
If no-one is familiar with David Kindersley's experiments with optical spacing it's well worth looking at. Info is scarce, except from http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/shop/optical-letter-spacing.php Basically DK built an apparatus for viewing lettering, to gauge spacing before he cut the

Re: [ft-devel] [Fontforge-devel] Peter Wiegel's auto spacing idea

2012-06-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 08:06:42PM +0100, Vernon Adams wrote: could that be done in fontforge too? FontForge has programable auto kerning feature (one can supply FontForge with a Python function that computes the amout of kerning needed). http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/autowidth.html

Re: [ft-devel] FT_Outline_Embolden() is Blurry

2012-06-15 Thread Infinality
Sorry to resurrect an old thread here, but I think I have a solution that preserves the addition of Y-weight at larger font sizes, while still keeping the blur to a minimum: In FT_Outline_Embolden (which is now FT_Outline_Embolden_XY), do this to ystrength: ystrength = FT_PIX_FLOOR (

[ft-devel] New Infinality Release

2012-06-15 Thread Infinality
For those interested, the latest release is available here: http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinality-freetype-patches/ Changes for 2012-06-15: Infinality autohint patches: * Fix the forced slight hinting logic * Enhance artificial emboldening at larger ppems Infinality subpixel patches: *