Re: [ft-devel] Text rendering error

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> Huh? I see subpixel rendering. Maybe set gamma = 1.0 to see the
>>> glorious color fringing.
>>
>> Right, my bad.  So there's nothing we can do to improve the
>> appearance of tricky fonts in a sub-pixel environment, AFAICS.
> 
> Brrr. Please explain. Do you mean that tricky fonts are to be hinted
> with v35 and never with v38/v40?

Yes.  Subglyphs of tricky fonts are also shifted and scaled
horizontally with bytecode – v40 intentionally suppresses that.

> This should be easy unless v35 is not compiled.

What do you want to say?

> The rendering itself is no problem whatsoever, AFAICS.

Indeed.  It's the horizontal alignment to the grid that makes the
renderings `sharp' and black, thus sticking out if compared with
`normal', fuzzier, v40 hinted glyphs.


    Werner