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Re: [ft] How to achieve the best quality at smaller sizes?
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft] How to achieve the best quality at smaller sizes? |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:06 +0200 (CEST) |
> 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