Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> The most important dependency is on linear blending (or gamma
> correction) in the compositing of glyph images onto the screen. The stem
> darkening function assumes blending with a gamma close to 1.8. If linear
> blending is not used (e.g., gamma 1.0) then black text will appear too
> dark. This might be a situation where you'd want to disable stem
> darkening. But white text would suffer. It really is important to use
> proper blending!
>
> -Dave

Thanks for the explanation! I just looked up a test of my monitor where 
it says that the gamma is somewhere between 2.1 and 2.5 depending on 
what you do in the OSD menu. How can I tell the CFF engine about that?

Regards,
Nikolaus