** Changed in: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Troy,
A lot of work has been put into FreeFont in the past year, but Ubuntu as
of 2008-07-07 had a version that hadn't been touched since 2006, and
which had very poor hints and instructions.
See the GNU FreeFont project site:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
Specifically, issues such
Here is a real-world sample from Firefox 3. Note even the hinting on
the lower part of the label along the baseline. All of the baseline
glyphs should be aligned and yet there seems to be an extra level of
anti-aliasing along the lowest line. One could suggest this is a result
of the font having
** Attachment added: "Analysis of Hinting of FreeSans, FreeMono, and FreeSerif
as compared to Liberation"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15864869/analysis.png
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HINTING: FreeMono suffers from strange hinting.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246164
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