Hello Maarten, On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:46 +0200, "Maarten Maathuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I do have one small question, why is the autohinter so ugly? (Is this on > purpose?) >
Of course, it *is* on purpose. You see, we at the FreeType Team, we take pride in producing *only* the ugliest and most disgusting text rendering we can get. Our motto is, after all, "Proudly making users vomit since 1996 !" :o) More seriously, the auto-hinter produces text that is a lot closer to the original character shapes than anything you'll get from a highly tuned bytecoded TrueType font. What I mean is that what you consider "good" text here is a highly distorted version of the original font; it's more similar to a hand-coded bitmap than anything else and there is no way that the auto-hinter can match this kind of work with the small CPU and memory resources it can use. And personally, I'm pretty tired of bytecoded text rendering. I find it a lot more ugly than the auto-hinter's output. that's not to say that the latter can't be improved but your mileage may vary. - David Turner - The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org) > Maarten. > > On 5/17/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here are some screenshots, were the bad.jpg is a good approximation > > > of the original situation. > > > > Please try ftview and/or ftdiff on this particular font. > > > > > > > Am i again asking the wrong mailinglist? > > > > > > > > Yes, your question really belongs to freetype list. > > > > Not necessarily. > > > > > > I don't know why Werner sent you this way. Probably because he > > > > saw the XML snippets in your mail and automatically thought you > > > > have a fontconfig question. > > > > :-) Indeed. I need a way to reproduce a problem in a generic way, and > > even the before/after snapshot doesn't really help, except that the > > `good' one looks like having bytecode hinting enabled and the `bad' > > one disabled. > > > > > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
