Re: [ft] unhappy about recent "light" changes

[David Turner]

OK, please try the current CVS, I've made some improvements to advance
width computations. However, there is an inherent conflict between
ideal spacing and reducing the blurness.

Frankly, I don't know if this new light hinting algorithm will be in
the next release; if too many complain about it, I'll move it to a new
hinting mode (hurray for more options, and all the associated changes
to the rest of the graphics stack !!)

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:14:25 -0500, address@hidden said:
> Before it's too late, I would like to complain that spacing between
> the glyphs has become much worse in recent CVS. See the attached
> snaps.
> 
> - "po" "pe" now touch each other
> - "ra" much closer now
> -  "op" too far
> 
> The snapshots are Verdana.
> In DejaVu-Sans even stems have uneven widths. Bluriness hides a lot of
> imprefections.
> Oh well.