[Devel] autohinter suggestions

[David Chester]

Greetings.

David Turner wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your work. I didn't include your blue-scale patch yet
> because I believe it should be possible to perform the same thing in a
> much more pleasant way that doesn't involve calling FT_Set_Char_Size
> within the auto-hinter. Be assured that such patch will go into FreeType
> once the details are cleared out.

Great.  Surely, you are right--there must be a better way, but it's not
obvious to me exactly what that way is.

> By the way, while your changes increase the quality of most fonts, I have
> encountered a few cases where it lowered them. For example, try to 
> display a waterfall of "Georgia" and "Times New Roman" and see how sizes 
> 16 and 18 are. I'd like to correct this before the 2.1.4 release

I see what you mean.  This seems to fix the problem:

--- ~/ft-clean/freetype2/src/autohint/ahhint.c   2003-01-12 13:26:10.00
+++ ./src/autohint/ahhint.c     2003-01-17 11:00:31.00
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@

         else if ( ( base_flags & AH_EDGE_ROUND ) )
         {
-        if ( dist < 96 )
+        if ( dist < 80 )
             dist = 64;
         }
         else if ( dist < 56 )

Regards,
David Chester