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[ft] Rendering of Hinted Postscript "b"
From: |
Stephen Hartke |
Subject: |
[ft] Rendering of Hinted Postscript "b" |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:42:49 -0600 |
Hello,
I'm using FontForge to develop a sans serif Postscript font. I've encountered an
unusual problem with the rendering of a hinted "b."
I've attached the pfb and afm files for MySans-Regular to this email.
The file contains the b glyph, and an o for comparison. If you view
the b and o using FreeType's ftview program at size 20, then the
inside of the counter of the b is 5 pixels wide. However, at size 21,
the counter is only 4 pixels wide. This looks very strange. The o
seems to work as expected. If I remove the right vertical hint from
the bowl, the width seems right in ftview, but the bowl is fuzzy.
Is there a problem with the hinting? Or is my font not constructed correctly?
I've also included a picture of this phenomenon in ftview. I'm using
freetype-2.1.9-2 on Fedora Core 4 with
xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2_4.rhfc4.at.
Thanks,
Stephen Hartke
lastname at gmail dot com
MySans-Regular.afm
Description: Binary data
MySans-Regular.pfb
Description: application/font-type1
ftview-rendering.png
Description: PNG image
- [ft] Rendering of Hinted Postscript "b",
Stephen Hartke <=