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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available
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vern adams |
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Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:07:21 +0100 |
Werner,
Did you also tweak something else in ttfautohint very recently? I'm on latest
0.9.6-6446
Latest TTfautohinted fonts under DirectWrite render noticeably better than
those from previous weeks builds. Stems look much crisper across the x-axis :)
Whatever you did, was good.
-vernon
On 24 Jun 2012, at 11:13, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
>
> I've just added GDI ClearType support to ttfautohint. This gets
> automatically detected, so no user action is required.
>
> Please test!
>
> Note that you won't see a difference with FreeType (except if you
> patch the sources); you should rather use an older Windows version
> like Win XP which actually exhibits GDI ClearType rendering.
>
>
> Werner
>
>
> PS: Currently, the git version of FreeType can have problems with some
> ttfautohinted fonts (but not all), causing bad artifacts; I've
> already reported this to Erik.
Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available, Hirwen Harendal, 2012/06/25