Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

[Torsten Giebl]

Hello !


> Uh, oh, you are mixing up things.

I am sorry for that, this font stuff is so
complicated for me to understand.

> The metrics used by a word
> processor are *not* the autohinted metrics.  It would be completely
> crazy to do so since you get a dependency on the font size and
> screen/printer resolution.  Autohinted metrics are good for screen
> menus and the like only.  The same is true for the bytecode
> interpreter, BTW.
>
> In case the unhinted metrics for Times New Roman and Liberation Serif
> are identical, they will stay identically on paper, regardless whether
> you use the autohinter or the bytecode interpreter for rendering
> glyphs on screen.  In case you get different results, something is
> severely broken in your word processing application.

Should Firefox then with "Autohint true" display for example the line
"Test Test Test Test" in Times New Roman and Liberation Serif on the screen the 
same
size or not ? So that it wordwraps at the exact same character ?


CU