Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Hirwen Harendal
> On 12-07-02 18:56, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The point is that you can install the MS rasterizer DLL within > > Wine :-) Behdad says that he successfully has done this; I will ask > > him for details. [Hmm, maybe I'm wrong and he was only talking about > > the OpenType support.] > Very interesti

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Adam Twardoch
On 12-07-02 18:56, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > The point is that you can install the MS rasterizer DLL within > Wine :-) Behdad says that he successfully has done this; I will ask > him for details. [Hmm, maybe I'm wrong and he was only talking about > the OpenType support.] Werner I think he did inde

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Infinality
My understanding is that it was not possible to bring any dll over into WINE to get the MS rasterizer. It's built directly into the Windows kernel (or something else that isn't a dll). I would be *really* happy if I were wrong however! Please share if you find a way! On 07/02/2012 11:56 AM,

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> PS: Who knows a TrueType debugger for MS Windows (this is, which >>>uses the rendering engine of MS Windows!) similar to FontForge? >>>Ideally, this should run under Wine also... > > But on Wine, it'll use FreeType rather than the MS rasterizer, so > what exactly is the point? :) The

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread vern adams
Started to post test results at http://code.newtypography.co.uk/ I have more (i.e. Ubuntu Font, plus greyscale shots) but will not get round to posting those screenshots untill tomorrow. Any votes for other fonts i should test? The results are pretty good i think. The new routine run with the -w

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It is OpenSans Regular from the Google webfonts server. Thanks. > you mean https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/ ? Yessir! Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-deve

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Hirwen Harendal
> PS: Who knows a TrueType debugger for MS Windows (this is, which uses > the rendering engine of MS Windows!) similar to FontForge? > Ideally, this should run under Wine also... Maybe from MS http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.aspx -- Hirwen HARENDAL ___

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Adam Twardoch
But on Wine, it'll use FreeType rather than the MS rasterizer, so what exactly is the point? :) > >> PS: Who knows a TrueType debugger for MS Windows (this is, which uses >>the rendering engine of MS Windows!) similar to FontForge? >>Ideally, this should run under Wine also... > > __

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread vern adams
sss! What the mind doesn't know, the eyes don't see ;) For proper testing i had to buy WindowsXP & 7 (i felt so dirty) and installed under VirtualBox. -v On 2 Jul 2012, at 11:24, Adam Twardoch wrote: > But on Wine, it'll use FreeType rather than the MS rasterizer, so what > exactly is t