[Please *never* send such large BMP images to a mailing list! *Always* use a compressed format like PNG or JPG.]
> But when I use Windows font preview, I can see that the
> bitmap effect is exactly the same as the bitmap viewed by
> FontForge, including the numbers "0123456789".
Your image is at 16ppem. What you see is native, monochrome TrueType
hinting for the digits. If you activate that in FreeType you get
*exactly* the same.
Werner
