Werner, Sounds good.
I think i remember you saying that ttfautohint will not have a GUI. Is that still the case? vernon On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:28, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > [Vern, I take the liberty to answer on the list also.] > >> That's very interesting and gives some pretty good results. If >> no-one else has done so i am happy to run some specimen tests & >> produce screenshots. > > This would be great! Please wait a few days until I've fixed the > problem with composite glyphs (I'm nearly done, and the solution was > much easier than expected); I'll then send another mail to the list. > >> Are there plans with ttfautohint to give the user any abilities to >> vary/manipulate hinting parameters? > > Yes. However, I need input from experienced designers like you who > tell me what shall be configurable. The first parameter to be added > is the size range covered by hinting. For the moment, it is fixed to > 8<=ppem<=1000. Another one is whether the original font's outline > shall be used, or whether the font's original hinting shall be applied > (at the font units level, which means 2048 ppem for most TrueType > fonts). Some fonts like ArialMT *always* apply hints to some > composite glyphs to shift one or more subglyphs. Note that the latter > option will probably take some time to implement. > > Finally, there is the problem of glyphs which can't be addressed with > a cmap directly, like small caps which are activated by an OpenType > feature. Similar to FreeType's autohinter, such glyphs don't get any > special consideration and are treated by the default hinting module > (in FreeType this is the `cjk' module currently, and in ttfautohint it > can be either `dummy' or `latin', to be controlled by another > yet-to-be-written configuration option :-). This is quite a generic > problem and needs separate attention; for the moment it is beyond my > work on ttfautohint. > > So please comment and make suggestions! > > > Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel