2009/11/30 Qianqian Fang <fan...@gmail.com>: > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> Aestetics is relative but uniform stroke width is not. >> >> Yes, I suspected it would not be a common character, my character >> table does not list a meaning for it. >> >> However, similar issue can be seen with the 刀 character in the >> microhei_24px and microhei_32px rasterization. In fact, the stroke >> width is almost inverted in these two rasterizations although they are >> supposedly the same font. >> > > I agree with you that the CJK autohinter is far from perfect. > It does a much worse job in smaller sizes.
If it does decent job on larger font sizes then perhaps we could render a large enough font and rely on bitmap fonts for smaller sizes. I guess I should also install some more fonts and try to convert them to bitmap in Fontforge. > > Actually, you can find the unit that does the cjk autohinting, see > > http://opensource.apple.com/source/X11proto/X11proto-15.5/freetype/freetype-2.3.9/src/autofit/afcjk.c > (this is a older version though, but just give you an idea) > > if anyone want to improve the algorithm in this unit, that > will be really useful. > I can tell a uniform line thickness when I see it but if it was easy to get with the autohinter surely somebody would fix it up. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
