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Re: [ft] libfreetype/autohint feature
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westlake |
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Re: [ft] libfreetype/autohint feature |
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Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:42:18 -0500 |
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I was looking at ReactOS and it sources freetype, I'm trying to see if
there is a way I can get the same effect of a high contrast font without
hinting instead on a linux system. I'll look into cairo thanks.
On 18/12/17 08:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:44:24 -0500, westlake wrote:
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>> So my question is, is there a way I can completely disable
>> auto-hinting?
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> Then you don’t want to use a font-rendering engine like FreeType at
> all. Just get the glyph geometry as paths and scan-convert them using a
> graphics engine like Cairo.