Re: [Devel] MingLiU TT font renders badly without bytecode interpreter

[Jan Slupski]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Vincent Caron wrote:

> Jan Slupski wrote:
> > I guess you tell me that it is "broken" or bad designed font, but
> > is there anything that can be done to display it better?
> 
> The auto-hinter is advertised to work nicely on most latin fonts, not 
> asiatic ones. It seems that ideograms still benefit a lot from explicit 
> hinting, and if MingLiU displays badly without the font designer's 
> hinting (the embedded TrueType bytecode), it does mean that the font is 
> well hinted actually :).

Ok. 
I assume you know what was my idea of telling that it is broken.
That it cannot be rendered basing on outline only.

But thanks for explanation. I thought that if font is "well" designed,
FT can hint it well without running bytecode.

Thanks
Jan

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