RE: [Freetype] Re: manual anti-aliasing

[Jeff Chow]

Hi David,

I've confirmed that I'm using the FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING like you suggested,
can you think of any other reason I may get the results that I'm getting?

Thanks again,
Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chester [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:28 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Freetype] Re: manual anti-aliasing
> 
> 
> 
> > So why would rastering a large pixel size yield a 
> > disproportionately smaller
> > glyph? 
> 
> I made an attempt at "manual anti-aliasing" exactly as you 
> described it. 
> Check the very bottom of the page at 
> www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack for
> example screenshots.  That approach seems to work much better 
> with serif
> fonts and worse with sans-serif ones.
> 
> Leaving hinting enabled could yield slightly unexpected 
> numbers of pixel
> rows at smaller sizes.  If you aren't calling FT_Load_Glyph with
> FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING, try that.  
> 
> David C.
> 
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