[Devel] Re: [Freetype] Bad truetype rendering? still not satisfied!!

[David Turner]

Hello,

Robert Schelander a écrit :
> 
> After comparing the results with an old freetype1 I'm
> again not really satisfied.
> 
> Rendering of seperate letters is now more or less ok
> with activated bytecode interpreter, but spacing between
> ':' and '.' characters makes still not a good result. Look at
> the link and compare:
> http://members.aon.at/schleppealm/rendertext4.png
> Both examples use the same arial.ttf and a size of 12.
>

It seems that you didn't translate your text to _integer_ pixel
coordinates. Sub-pixel positioning is what causes the "blurr"
you're seeing..

Apart from that, I'm pretty certain that the glyphs are
identical

> Is there another option that either everyone except me
> knows or nobody cares?
> 
> Is freetype1 anyway better than freetype2 -  is freetype2 just
> another hack around some patents?
>
FreeType 2 and FreeType 1 should give identicial results when the
bytecode interpreter is activated..

The auto-hinter is a way to render text without the latter, and
it will generate slightly (and sometimes vastly) different
glyphs.

Hope this helps,

- David