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

[Billy Biggs]

Mike A. Harris (address@hidden):

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
> >>   I think the problem may be that the font likely has no truetype hints,
> >> and so debian is not hinting at all, whereas redhat8, since it doesn't
> >> use the bytecode interpreter, uses the autohinter on everything.
> >
> >Yes, I HAD read in some old post that the Luxi fonts have poor
> >bytecodes, i.e. are poorly hinted. THEN I should have understood that
> >redhat was better because it was IGNORING those bytecodes. Then I
> >should have concluded that Readhat was using auto-hinting, and Debian
> >wasn't.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the Luxi TTF fonts are not hinted at all, so 
> enabling the bytecode interpreter shouldn't make any difference 
> at all with Luxi TTF fonts.

  Sounds like a better solution all around would be to enable the auto
hinter by default in Xft for fonts which have no hinting information.

  I think it would be nice to have some way of knowing the level of
hinting information in a font through the API.  Then Xft could use
FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT as appropriate.

  As mentioned, not enabling the bytecode interpreter makes some fonts
unusable.

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Billy Biggs
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