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Re: [ft] Emboldening and then hinting a glyph with FreeType
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft] Emboldening and then hinting a glyph with FreeType |
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Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:24:17 +0100 (CET) |
> I'm a one of the developers of free open source CoolReader3 branch
> for E-Ink reader devices and I have a question. CR3 is based on
> FreeType2 lib. I have added emboldening font functionality to CR3,
> since E-Ink devices seem to need some font emboldening due to the
> low contrast of E-Ink screens.
The current release of FreeType supports stem darkening for the
auto-hinter. Have you tried it?
> So, my question is: is there a way to embolden a glyph first and
> then "hint" it with FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL, HINTING_MODE_AUTOHINT or
> FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT, so that I could get an emboldened and THEN
> hinted glyph before using FT_Render_Glyph()? I have searched the
> Documentation and forums, but was not able to find the answer.
This is not possible (yet). Stem darkening (this is what you really
want, I guess) is available for CFF and the auto-hinter, but not for
TrueType.
Werner