Re: [Devel] Help me understand this... I'm loosing my sanity. Please.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

>>   I think the problem may be that the font likely has no truetype hints,
>> and so debian is not hinting at all, whereas redhat8, since it doesn't
>> use the bytecode interpreter, uses the autohinter on everything.
>
>Yes, I HAD read in some old post that the Luxi fonts have poor
>bytecodes, i.e. are poorly hinted. THEN I should have understood that
>redhat was better because it was IGNORING those bytecodes. Then I
>should have concluded that Readhat was using auto-hinting, and Debian
>wasn't.

Unless I'm mistaken, the Luxi TTF fonts are not hinted at all, so 
enabling the bytecode interpreter shouldn't make any difference 
at all with Luxi TTF fonts.

>should have concluded that Readhat was using auto-hinting, and Debian
>wasn't.

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