Re: [Devel] 2.1.0 and mozilla 1.0rc1

[Vadim Plessky]

On Thursday 25 April 2002 16:08, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
|  >>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim Plessky <address@hidden> writes:
|
|  Vadim> Problem with diagonal stems & FreeType is very well known.  But
|  Vadim> in fact it's not FT problem but *hinting* issue.  Some fonts
|  Vadim> have better hinting (I refer here to TT fonts), some fonts have
|  Vadim> really terrible hinting.  All said is related to FT with
|  Vadim> ByteCode Interpreter turned On.
|
|  Actually, since the instructing is AFAIK¹ targeted to bitmap rendering
|  rather than greymap rendering, it works (for the particular font I
|  mentioned, Carter's Georgia family) very well in its intended
|  application.  Only when rendering with aa and instructions on do the
|  dropouts occur.

Exactly.
But I got used to AA so much, that can't imagine myself using some application 
& fonts without AA.
I still from time to time reboot to Windows, and it's default TT renderer is 
so ugly that I try to shutdown computer and load Linux ASAP.

BTW: as some fonts are rendered ok with AA enabled, I guess we should just 
switch to those fonts until *bad fonts* are fixed.
Or FT added extra clue how to render those *bad* fonts with AA.
 
|
|  -JimC

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