Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[vern adams]

Werner,

Did you also tweak something else in ttfautohint very recently? I'm on latest 
0.9.6-6446
Latest TTfautohinted fonts under DirectWrite render noticeably better than 
those from previous weeks builds. Stems look much crisper across the x-axis :)
Whatever you did, was good.
-vernon

On 24 Jun 2012, at 11:13, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

 
 Folks,
 
 
 I've just added GDI ClearType support to ttfautohint.  This gets
 automatically detected, so no user action is required.
 
 Please test!
 
 Note that you won't see a difference with FreeType (except if you
 patch the sources); you should rather use an older Windows version
 like Win XP which actually exhibits GDI ClearType rendering.
 
 
Werner
 
 
 PS: Currently, the git version of FreeType can have problems with some
ttfautohinted fonts (but not all), causing bad artifacts; I've
already reported this to Erik.


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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[Werner LEMBERG]

 Did you also tweak something else in ttfautohint very recently? I'm
 on latest 0.9.6-6446.  Latest TTfautohinted fonts under DirectWrite
 render noticeably better than those from previous weeks builds.
 Stems look much crisper across the x-axis :) Whatever you did, was
 good.

Interesting, since I haven't changed anything.  Are you sure about
this?  Can you give more details?  Otherwise, let's call this the
cheese effect.  The riper the font, the better...

Waiting for GDI tests :-)


Werner

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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[Werner LEMBERG]

 Well looking at the git repo i notice the latest build added
 function for different flavours of cleartype rendering;

Yes, but you've written that you are using 0.9.6-6446!  The latest was
0.9.8-470f until one minute and is now 0.9.9-c45e.

 I assumed this what partly was effecting rendering now under
 DirectWrite?

Yes.  However, it shouldn't affect DW at all, this is, DW rendering
should be the same as before (that it appears better to your eyes is
something we have to discuss separately).  Somehow the logic to
differentiate between DW and GDI doesn't seem to work.

[some time later]

OK, I think I've fixed it in the bytecode.  Please try again with
current git.

 see screenshots at
 https://picasaweb.google.com/107807505287232434305/Ttfautohint09

Thanks!  


Werner

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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[Dave Crossland]

I confirm this works on Mac OS X 10.7 Lino

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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[Werner LEMBERG]

 I'm trying to compile the last version of TTFautohint from GIT, maybe
 I mess something...
 After  git clone git://repo.or.cz/ttfautohint.git
 then ./bootstrap
 then ./configure
 'Make' returns an error : no makefile found

If you look at the configure script you can see that it exits with an
error because it can't find pdftex.  Contrary to a normal build from
the tarball, there are a bunch of additional dependencies if you build
from the git repository (as described in the file `INSTALL.git').

The easiest solution is to re-run the configure script as follows:

  ./configure --without-doc


 Werner

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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

[Hirwen Harendal]

Good evening werner

I'm trying to compile the last version of TTFautohint from GIT, maybe
I mess something...
After  git clone git://repo.or.cz/ttfautohint.git
then ./bootstrap
then ./configure
'Make' returns an error : no makefile found

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I installed the official 0.9 separately, without problem


-- 
Hirwen HARENDAL
harendal ttfautohint # ./bootstrap
./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out ttfautohint sources...
./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
Submodule '.gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path 
'.gnulib'
Cloning into '.gnulib'...
remote: Counting objects: 140761, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27634/27634), done.
remote: Total 140761 (delta 118235), reused 135526 (delta 113069)
Receiving objects: 100% (140761/140761), 27.08 MiB | 127 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (118235/118235), done.
Submodule path '.gnulib': checked out '33f823397dbb0edb57503f2f6dad2362456bc6a9'
running: libtoolize --copy --install
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libtoolize: copying file `gnulib/config.guess'
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--doc-base doc --lib libgnu --m4-base gnulib/m4/ --source-base gnulib/src/ 
--tests-base tests --local-dir gl  --libtool --import ...
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