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[ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde
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James Cloos |
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[ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:35:43 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "August" == August Karlstrom <address@hidden> writes:
August> I use the resolution 800x600, 96 dpi and the autohinter
I just tried:
:; ftview -r 96 8 /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/
and toggled forced-autohinting on with the f key.
Up through 6 points the tilde is straight, but from 7 points up it is
properly shaped.
Unforcing the auto-hinter shows that the instructions do not do any
better; they show the same result.
Leaving off the -r 96, and thus defaulting to either 72 or 75, it
is <= 8 points where the tilde flatens out. This suggests that
you are not actually rendering a 96-dpi 8-pt font.
You should be seeing an xheight of 6 pixels and a cap height of 8
with decenders 2 pixels. If your glyphs have only 6 pixel cap
heights and 4 pixel x heights, you are actually seeing either
72 or 75 dpi renderings. At least if ftview is giving me
accurate results....
I'm therefore seeing the flattening only at what is equivalent
to a 4x8 pixel character-cell bitmap font.
-JimC
--
James H. Cloos, Jr. <address@hidden>
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/09/12
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/15
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/09/15
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/16
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/09/15
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/16
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/09/15
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/16
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/09/16
- [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde,
James Cloos <=
Re: [ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde, James Cloos, 2005/09/15