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

[Sebastien BARRE]

Hi Werner,

At 6/20/2002 05:17 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Attached is an image from pfaedit -- as you can see, the digits are
> indeed smaller by about 4% (709 vs. 729 font units).  Doing
>
>   ftstring -r 17 -m "Z1Z4Z" 69 n019003l.pfb
>
> the difference is one pixel; using 70ppem instead of 69ppem, both
> digits and letters have the same height.
>
> The font has bad hinting in the PS version -- I've added ghost hints
> to both digit 1 and 4 using pfaedit, and as the two attached xmag
> images show, the digits are much better rendered after the correction.

Yes indeed (although I think the screenshot are inverted :).

> Conclusion: The problem is in the font and not in FreeType.

Conclusion: I'm back to square one. Do'h.

We are looking for freely redistributable clone version of the 
Arial/Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts (normal, bold, italic and 
bold/italic faces). We spent a good amount of time searching on the net, 
and we came up most of the time with incomplete fonts with no real 
distribution policy. The Type1 fonts provided with XFree86 look fine, but 
they are missing a couple of faces. The Ghostscript fonts looked fine too, 
and URW, who contributed those to Ghostscripts years ago, was kind enough 
to allow us to do the same. Now this hinting problem is an issue, sadly.

Thanks for your help.