Is there any reason I can't extract the modified glyphs produced by the hinting bytecode? I think that version looks nearly *perfect*.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I find the printed/actual design of DejaVu Sans Mono too wide. The > > hinting at 9pt makes it look taller, and I like the resulting > > glyphs. > > Ah, you want a condensed version of DejaVu. > > > How can I make the entire font look that way (taller, adjusted > > glyphs)? > > With native bytecode hinting, this is not easily possible. You might > use different DPI values for x and y, but this can easily break > because there are no longer (popular) devices with different x and y > resolutions (ClearType is handled differently), thus people no longer > take care in manually crafting correct bytecode for this situation. > > On the other hand, if you use v40 hinting in FreeType, scaling > horizontally with a transformation matrix might give good results > because v40 ignores almost all hints along the x axis, thus scaling > after hinting doesn't degrade the output. > > > If I can't do this, I may create a vertically stretched version of > > DejaVu Sans. Maybe I may even redraw the glyphs to create my own > > font that looks like DejaVu 9pt, even when printed out. > > Well, you are free to do so, but this is *a lot* of work... > > > Werner >
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