On 3 July 2012 12:09, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hello Vern! > > > In git, I've now fixed the situation displayed in your > `Capture-G-win7GDI.png' image (showing Open Sans at 21px, please look > at the ugly rendering of digit 3, for example): It was a buglet in > FreeType's autofit module which didn't show up because of its smooth > rendering algorithm. > > The old code contained both a (scaled) stem width of 95 and 97 units; > for the strong stem width algorithm, the former was rounded to 1px but > the latter to 2px. The new code avoids this by unifying such almost > identical stem widths, taking the mean value, 96. As a threshold, > widths which are different less than or equal to 1% of the em size are > unified; this is certainly not noticeable visually.
Wow, that is a really substantial improvement :-) Well done Werner, bravo! On 2 July 2012 06:43, Vernon Adams <v...@newtypography.co.uk> wrote: > > I maybe wrong, but I thought dw was found in explorer > 9 and Firefox 7+ but not the win system. Yes, Win 7 has DW available but apps have to be rewritten to use it (because the apps currently use the GDI API) So we can expect that in Win 8 most of the MS apps will be using it, but many 3rd party apps will take some time to change. Some maybe never will. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel