Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] CJK Autohinter should not clump stems together when there are too many of them

[mpsuzuki]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:43:54 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Some Chinese characters, such as 量 and 置, have a large number of
>> horizontal stems.  At ordinary sizes, the autohinter will often
>> clump adjacent stems together; although the result remains readable,
>> the unevenness of black and white looks rather ugly.
>> 
>> afcjk.patch is my patch that attempts to solve this problem.  All
>> stems that are pixel-aligned have at least one pixel of space (or
>> other stems) in between.  Other stems are not aligned, but only have
>> their position interpolated, so they have the un-hinted look which
>> is IMHO better.
>
>Thanks for your patch; it looks reasonable.  Toshiya-san, could you
>please comment?

Indeed, the rasterization result of patched version is
better than original version. I want to check if it
works well for other fonts, especially the typeface
using non-flat-width strokes, like KaiShu. Please give
me 1 or 2 weeks...

Regards,
mpsuzuki