Re: [ft] How to achieve the best quality at smaller sizes?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've been trying to get text to rasterize at smaller sizes but the
> fonts are breaking apart. I need them to be as clean as possible and
> can't use antialiasing.  When I use Photoshop, the fonts look great
> with no antialiasing.  Is it possible to duplicate that with
> FreeType? I understand that hinting will help a lot but is that
> available for non-antialiased text?

Yes.  Native TrueType hinting works normally for non-antialiased too
-- however, this depends on the font, and you should look into the
font's `gasp' table to check which sizes are properly supported.


    Werner