Re: [ft-devel] PMingLiu and unpatented hinting again

[David Turner]

We already added this "magic feature" to the FreeType CVS; more precisely, 
tricky fonts
like MingliU are detected automatically and the unpatented hinter used in this 
case.

Have you tried it ? If it doesn't work, send us the font privately, and we'll 
update
the detection code to deal with it.

Regards,

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


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:22:42 -0000, "Bevan, David" <address@hidden> said:
> Hi!
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> We've just hit the PMingLiu abuse-of-hinting issue for the first time
> here.
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> Is it possible to build the latest FT in such a way that it is possible
> to select between the autohinter and unpatented hinting easily on a
> font-by-font basis?
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> It doesn't seem to be possible to do so easily with 2.1.9.
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> Since this seems likely to be a configuration required by a number of
> folk, do you think it's worth adding this as a possibility (if not the
> default)?
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> Thanks.
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> David %^>
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> David Bevan, Emtex Ltd.
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