Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Its CFF so no > > That's just plain lazy :) > > surely there's some crossover with ttf? Not really, since TrueType doesn't have the concept of `hints' at all. ttfautohint emulates Type 1 hints to a certain extent, but those hints are created by algorithm (i.e. by FreeType's auto-hinter), whi

Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread vernon adams
On 1 May 2013, at 11:18, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 1 May 2013 20:16, vernon adams wrote: >> That's look like good stuff. >> >> Will this new code also be integrated into ttfautohint library? :) > > Its CFF so no That's just plain lazy :) surely there's some crossover with ttf? __

Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Will this new code also be integrated into ttfautohint library? :) Not directly, since ttfautohint can't handle CFFs. However, maybe the algorithm influences the auto-hinter also which in turn could influence ttfautohint. Werner ___ Freetype-d

Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 May 2013 20:16, vernon adams wrote: > That's look like good stuff. > > Will this new code also be integrated into ttfautohint library? :) Its CFF so no ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/list

Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread vernon adams
That's look like good stuff. Will this new code also be integrated into ttfautohint library? :) -v On 1 May 2013, at 11:11, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Folks, > > > Adobe, in collaboration with Google, has contributed a new CFF parsing > and hinting engine. The last few months it was my job t

[ft-devel] new CFF engine

2013-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, Adobe, in collaboration with Google, has contributed a new CFF parsing and hinting engine. The last few months it was my job to fully integrate the code into FreeType, and I'm very pleased with the results. Here are links to the relevant blogs: http://adobe.ly/12mJWGv http://google