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

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George Williams wrote:
> 
> ? 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.
> 
Ah, I see you're right, I should've dug around more. That's good to know but
I think I'd quickly go nuts trying to make as many adjustments as I foresee
needing without some high-level abstraction like in Fontlab.


Brady Duga wrote:
> 
> Couldn't you just use one of the X11 based viewing apps that come  
> with FreeType? I'm not sure how it all works on Windows, but on Mac  
> OS X you can just run the sample apps from the X terminal and see  
> what the text looks like. Since you point the apps at the font file,  
> there is no need to install them, or even run them under Linux.
> 
> --Brady

You're right; in my haste to shift over to Freetype I had a few brain cramps
it seems. For some reason I was convinced that I needed to be in Linux to
verify the Freetype rendering, but I've since compiled 2.3.4 in WinXP and
the ft2demos utilities are quite handy. Ftdiff and ftview are great.

Incidentally, does anyone know why disabling hinting in the Ubuntu system
font preferences dialog has no effect text rendering in Firefox? A hinted
font like Verdana still renders with hints in Firefox whereas it will
correctly render unhinted in the GUI (e.g., window titles, menu text). 
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