Folks,
I'm starting a three-month project for writing a new library which will take a TrueType font as the input, remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType. Right now, I'm still in a phase of collecting ideas, analyzing previous art. In particular, I've already examined the TrueType auto-instructor of FontForge (written originally by MichaĆ Nowakowski), but this is too tightly integrated into FontForge to be of much help currently. Note that, contrary to the autohinter, generating such fonts is not a time-critical issue. In other words, it might be possible (probably in a follow-up project) to add further, more time-consuming analysis to the glyph shapes for improving the output bytecode. Ideas, suggestions, comments are highly welcomed! I'm especially interested in thoughts how possible function parameters might look like to control the generation of the hints. Currently, it would be a black box process (essentially the same as the autohinter). Werner PS: Since I can imagine that this list is read by many people who are interested in this kind of stuff, I'll post here my thoughts, progress, etc. If you think this is inappropriate please tell me, and I'll set up something different. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel