On 28 Feb 2011, at 23:10, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> however are there any plans to make it warp in the y direction? > > No. By its very nature, such warping can't happen in the `main' > hinting direction $(Q#| you would get uneven glyph heights if you do so.
Could it not do something like pick a selection of key letters and work out how best to vertically warp these, using the scoring system, and then apply the same warp consistently across all glyphs? Similarly to how I assume regular hinting must work, at least in the sense that it must do the same thing to an F and an H with regards to snapping the middle horizontal bar. Ignore me if I'm talking horseshit though :) >> In terms of whether to activate the option I would think it better >> to make it optional, for the reasons specified above - some people >> are likely using the light hinting mode specifically because it only >> affects things vertically, and this might scupper that approach. > > Currently it's a compile-time option, cf. AF_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_WARPER. > Personally, I think as many options like this should be runtime-configurable as possible, so that there is maximum flexibility for applications in choosing how they want things to render rather than enforce a particular style of rendering/hinting across the board that requires a recompile to be changed. With that in mind, how about some more anti-aliasing options - it would be great to be able to emulate what Photoshop does with the *clear/sharp/strong/crisp selection (http://www.zeta.net/web-design/photoshop-anti-aliasing-for-web-design.html for examples) ..... as a games developer, the main complaint we have from the art team is "why can't we render fonts like our photoshop mock-ups?" Anyway, off at a tangent, sorry... Oliver. *that said, those four modes might be achievable via applying a filter to the existing greyscale/LCD coverage values anyway... _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
