Re: [ft-devel] Rendering artifacts

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "m" == malc  <address@hidden> writes:

m> And while at it, i'd like to point at another interesting case, namely
m> Linux Biolinum where when using full native hinter and rgb AA the color
m> fringing is just insane (again under Vista there's no fringing)

The fringing depends on the filter.  For well-instructed glyf fonts the
legacy filter gives the best results.  For type1 or cff fonts, or when
rendering glyf fonts either with the autofit module or w/o any fitting
freetype's default filter, IMO, gives the best results.

I use these four fontconfig files to acomplish that:

10-autohint-cff.conf
Description: Text Data

10-autohint-type1.conf
Description: Text Data

10-hintstyle-by-fontformat.conf
Description: Text Data

99-filter-by-hints.conf
Description: Text Data

Not every app will honour the filter choice; most distributions'
versions of cairo will, some versions of xft may.  I *think* current
versions of qt do, but I'm not certain of that.

-JimC
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