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Re: [ft-devel] [ft] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released
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vern adams |
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Re: [ft-devel] [ft] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released |
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Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:10:37 +0000 |
Hi Erik!
Do you have screenshots of your play with aflatin.c ?
Would be interesting to see.
thanks
vern
On 29 Oct 2011, at 20:16, Infinality wrote:
> Hi Vernon,
>
> I've achieved some results by selectively playing with the "dist" value in
> af_latin_compute_stem_width() in aflatin.c. The problem with doing this
> though is the lack of diagonal hinting in the autohinter. Things like W and
> A can start looking really thin when you force stems to something like 1
> pixel wide. I would LOVE to see diagonal hinting get implemented, because it
> would really improve the quality of the autohinter. I'd also be interested
> to see if there is some sort of official answer to your question, as I'd
> certainly make use of it in my patchset. Currently I use a combination of
> emboldening, gamma correction, alignment and "dist" manipulation to make
> thinner fonts render in a more readable way. It would be nice to have one
> way to do it!
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
> (Infinality)
>
>
> On 10/27/2011 11:05 AM, vern adams wrote:
>> Thanks Werner.
>> I will test this tonight :)
>>
>> Also - i have noticed ttfautohint has limitations when it comes to
>> instructing very light weighted fonts.
>> The autohinter is creating instructions that produce much too thin stems.
>> The uniformity of the stems seems good :) but they are simply too thin and
>> disappear at below 18-16 px.
>> Could there be a way to set the autohinter to impose a minimum size of stem
>> widths, for example??
>>
>> I will post you screenshots later of the issue.
>>
>> -v
>>
>>
>> On 27 Oct 2011, at 16:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>
>>> ttfautohint 0.4 has been released. If you have had rendering problems
>>> on Apple computers, please try this version. Theoretically, those
>>> issues should no longer be there.
>>>
>>> It is available from
>>>
>>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>>
>>> Werner
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
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>>> delay of up to 24 hours. In case of problems use
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>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input,
>>> remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all
>>> glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's
>>> autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the
>>> autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.
>>>
>>> The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see
>>> `src/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description. Note that the library
>>> itself won't get installed currently.
>>>
>>> A simple command-line interface to the library is the demo program
>>> `ttfautohint'; after compilation and installation, say
>>>
>>> ttfautohint --help
>>>
>>> for usage information, or say
>>>
>>> man ttfautohint
>>>
>>> to read its manual page.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> New in 0.4:
>>>
>>> * The bytecode has been changed to `create' twilight points. This should
>>> avoid rendering artifacts on some platforms.
>>>
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Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released, Werner LEMBERG, 2011/10/27
Re: [ft-devel] [ft] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released, Infinality, 2011/10/29
Re: [ft-devel] [ft] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released, Werner LEMBERG, 2011/10/30