Re: [Devel] Help me understand this... I'm loosing my sanity. Please.

[Maurizio Colucci]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 08:06, Keith Packard wrote:
> We should also be receiving libre fonts from Bitstream in the near future
> which are exceptionally well hinted and which perform quite a bit better
> with the bytecode interpreter than with the autohinter.  If, as I hope,
> these fonts become commonplace in Linux applications, then many people
> will greatly benefit from the interpreter.

Does anybody know if MS Cleartype and Mac os X are taking account of
the bytecodes?

Because it seems to me that those technologies are sensibly better
than freetype2 with the interpreter turned on, and it seems a bit
strange. I am taking the Msttcorefonts as a comparison. I mean, even
with good hinted fonts such as andale mono or times new roman,
freetype2+interpreter is anything but good (IMO). You got the
sensation of a pen loosing ink.  It is only me to have this
impression?

M