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Re: [ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinte
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Mostafa Hajizadeh |
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Re: [ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter |
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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:43:53 +0330 |
I guess the ideal thing to do is to see the number of hinted glyphs
for various fonts to get some idea about it.
It's very probable that a font designer would add hinting for glyphs
that only need them. So maybe just 10% of glyphs should be considered
a 'yes.' Not sure of course.
Mostafa
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 05:21 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>>> No idea about the in-between. That's what I called "maybe". But
>>> it's not a very flexible API. Another way would be to get the
>>> number of hinted glyphs. I'm not sure.
>>
>> Sounds sensible. The arguments could be `start' and `end' of a range
>> (or (-1,-1) to indicate that we want the hinted glyphs of the whole
>> font, regardless of the CMap); the return value could the number of
>> hinted glyphs.
>
> Something like that. Not quite sure yet. Maybe others can provide some
> ideas?
>
> behdad
>
>> Werner
>
>
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