Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1)

[Vadim Plessky]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 1:37 am, Sebastien BARRE wrote:
|  At 6/19/2002 02:14 PM, Vincent Caron wrote:
|  >On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 19:49, Sebastien BARRE wrote:
|  >
|  >Just make sure it's not a FTGL pb, try to render the problematic glyphs
|  >using the 'ftstring' program from the ft2demos package :
|  >
|  >   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
|  >
|  >If the bug is still there, FreeType might really have a bug :)
|
|  Sorry guys, FTGL is OK, since I could reproduce the problem using
| something like:
|
|  ftstring -r 17 -m "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
|  0123456789 address@hidden&*()-=_+[]{}" ppem
|  D:\temp\fonts\free\candidates\urw\n022003l.pfb
|
|  Here is the result, for the "Nimbus Sans" and "Nimbus Mono".
|  http://barre.nom.fr/temp/type1bug.gif
|  Note the '1' and '4'

If you need better fonts than URW - I can send you in private mail.
But note that I tested them only under Linux (it seems you are running 
Windows)
Linux has better font rendering engine, so may be results for you (on Windows) 
will be not so good as for me (on Linux).
 
|
|  This is scary.
|  I mean, I'm quite sure a lot of people use Freetype and Type1/TrueType
|  fonts, so it looks strange that nobody noticed that.
|  Any clue ?
|
|  >I just want to add that you should have the bytecode interpreter
|  >enabled.  For patent reasons, it is disabled by default.
|
|  It does not solve the pb either.

Of course this will not solve problem, as you are using it with PostScript 
font! You will notice difference with TTF only!
Real problem with URW fonts that they have bad quality of *hinting*.
I was thinking to enhance contours for those fonts, re-hint  them and 
distribute under different name. But so far I was short on time and haven't 
completed this (but started!).

|
|  Thanks
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