Re: {Spam?} Re: [ft-devel] Type 1 fonts: Freetype 2 vs T1lib

[Vincent Torri]

> > I would like to update VFlib [1] from Freetype 1 to Freetype 2.
>
> Aah, Hirotsugu's project is still alive?  I met him a few years ago in
> Tsukuba, but even then he told me that he didn't have much time to
> work on it...

more or less. He has no time right now. I'm using his dvilib for a dvi
previewer and i've remarked a mem leak. When I saw the code, i decided to
help him improving the way dvilib and vflib are built, making it work
on windows and maybe reworking the code a bit. As we are in 2007, I think
it's better to use Freetype 2 rather than Freetype 1

> > So I would like to know if Freetype 2 would be sufficient for using
> > Type 1 fonts, compared to T1lib.
>
> Theoretically, this should work, especially if you work in the
> autohinter mode of FreeType.  However, the native Type 1 hinting
> engine of FreeType contains some known flaws, and noone is actively
> working on it.  A few months ago someone suggested to pass the Type 1
> hints to the autohinter (which is a good idea, I believe), but nothing
> has happened in the mean time, AFAIK.

ok. For now, I keep T1lib for Type 1 fonts.

thank you

Vincent Torri