Re: [ft] Fontlab, Hinting, Ubuntu and Freetype

[George Williams]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:30, Pon wrote:
> testing out my progress. I need XP because Fontlab won't run in Linux and
> Fontforge only seems to support Type1 hinting.
? FontForge supports TrueType hinting.

It doesn't do a very good job of it automatically but it lets you type
in instructions to your heart's content. And it has a debugger too.

> My question, then, is whether there is some sort of Linux-compatible
> Freetype application that will just load a font on-the-fly (without needing
> to install it to the system font directory) and then let me display some
> sample text and maybe test out hinting versus no hinting, antialiasing
> versus no antialiasing, etc. Maybe there is some easier workflow that I
> haven't thought of at all?
ftview, ftstring