Re: [Devel] TrueType hinting

[Werner LEMBERG]

> <<<<<<
> I've made Graham's unpatented TrueType hinting the new default.
> >>>>>>
> 
> This is not a good idea. I see from the changelog for rev. 1.665
> that unpatented hinting is now used unconditionally:

Oops!  Sorry.

> The unpatented hinting system is worse than no hinting at all for
> some fonts (like Microsoft Arial) because it constrains the
> projection and freedom vectors to horizontal or vertical and
> distorts the glyphs in weird ways. We should undefine
> TT_CONFIG_OPTION_FORCE_UNPATENTED_HINTING and allow users to select
> it for fonts that it helps, like the Dynalab ones.

Done.


    Werner