[Devel] autohinter suggestions

[David Chester]

David Turner, et al: 
 
Thank you for integrating most of my patches into CVS. 
 
I am curious to hear your thoughts on the ft-bluescale patch, where the
glyph is 
scaled before hinting so that its top edge is already on a pixel boundary. 
I noticed 
that it was not put into CVS.  I realize that my implementation is not very
graceful.  
Still, I think that it significantly improves glyph shapes in certain
cases--it helps 
maintain the 'eye' of the lowercase e's, keeps the tops of lowercase a's
rounded 
instead of squished, and helps to keep a consistent width-to-height ratio
from size to 
size. 
 
For reference, here's the page on my site showing examples with and without
this 
patch applied: 
 
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/bluescale.html 
 
Again, thanks very much. 
 
David Chester 
 

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