Re: [ft-devel] LIGHT hinting enhancement back-ported to FreeType 2.1.10

[David Turner]

hello,

what you see is normal, since the LIGHT hinting mode also *forces*
auto-hinting (after all, "light" hinting doesn't mean anything to the
bytecode
interpreter)

to solve your problem, simply update your fonts.conf rules to set "full"
hinting for Arial and other fonts you want to see handled by the bytecode
interpreter

Apart from that, Firefox, as well as a few other applications (and even
Gnome widgets !!) don't properly respond to changes in the fonts
preferences dialog, you can however restart them after your change, and
everything should work

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


GhePeU a écrit :

>Hello, 
>
>I just tryed freetype 2.1.10 with this patch. The rendering is much
>better than with "clean" freetype, but now my fontconfig rules aren't
>applied anymore.
>
>I usually compile freetype with the bytecode interpreter, then I enable
>the auto-hinter in /etc/fonts/local.conf with:
>
><match target="font">
>        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
></match>
>
>and finally I switch to the bytecode interpreter for some fonts only:
>
><match target="font">
>        <test name="family"><string>Arial</string></test>
>        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
></match>
>
>Now, when I set the LIGHT/MEDIUM hinting with the gnome utility these
>settings are ignored, while when I choose FULL hinting they are observed
>only by some applications (for instance, gnome-terminal) and ignored by
>others (firefox 1.5).
>
>However, the render quality has improved, at least to my eyes.
>
>Giacomo Perale
>
>
>
>
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