Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 299, Issue 99)

2022-08-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I hope some of these knowledge in comments, probably also alsewhere, > are copied over before its removal. There are people who want to > know what Apple/MS does which FreeType does not (yet), even if those > corners are practically unimportant and/or nobody is doing anything > about it any ti

Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 299, Issue 99)

2022-08-13 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
For entirely unrelated reasons, I have looked at some of the related code in the last few days. While most people are unlikely to miss any crucial functionality since it is not even enabled in the default build, there are two comments of the "this feature not yet implemented" kind in the GETIN

Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 299, Issue 99)

2022-06-22 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Dear Hin-Tak, > If it is all the same to you, I'd prefer it to say, but I guess I'll end up > maintaining a revert in the FontVal fork. There is incentive in the FontVal > backend to keep this, to match the Microsoft rastering backend. I could not find any references to Infinality or TT_INTERP

Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 299, Issue 99)

2022-06-22 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
On Thursday, 23 June 2022, 05:26:10 GMT+8, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: > I could not find any references to Infinality or TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_38  or FT_Property_Set in your Font-Validator repository.  The switch between different interpreter version is via _lib.PropertySet(...) in

Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 209, Issue 11)

2022-06-22 Thread Nikolaus Waxweiler
I wonder how well it really matches? As far as I remember, it does something superficially similar but the actual MS rasterizer works differently?

Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 209, Issue 11)

2022-06-22 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
If it is all the same to you, I'd prefer it to say, but I guess I'll end up maintaining a revert in the FontVal fork. There is incentive in the FontVal backend to keep this, to match the Microsoft rastering backend. === original musicToday's Topics:   1. Infinality

Infinality removal

2022-06-21 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Dear FreeType community, We have just committed a forewarning about Infinality removal. - TrueType interpreter version 38 (aka Infinality) that was first introduced about 10 years ago in FreeType 2.4.11 is now deprecated and slated to be removed in the next version. TrueType