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Re: [ft-devel] Experimental: v38 interpreter with minimal backwards comp
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] Experimental: v38 interpreter with minimal backwards compatibility mode and linear advance widths |
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Sat, 13 Feb 2016 08:06:21 +0100 (CET) |
> [...] the common TrueType hinting practice of clamping stems to
> integers horizontally is not really compatible with the softer look
> of the autohinter and the CFF grid fitter, so I'm second-guessing if
> I actually want native TT hinting to be part of light mode. Hrrmm.
Seconded. Even if we somehow suppress horizontal hinting we won't get
good results, I believe, since virtually all TrueType fonts try to
align to full pixels, something the auto-hinter doesn't do in many
cases.
Werner