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Re: [ft-devel] disappointing results with autohinting
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] disappointing results with autohinting |
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Thu, 24 May 2007 21:15:58 +0200 (CEST) |
> I am getting very bad results autohinting Times New Roman (times.ttf
> from Microsoft): see the attached image. I have turned off the
> TrueType bytecode interpreter, and verified by single-stepping that
> the autohinter is being used.
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> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong are very welcome.
This looks like using the autohinter to produce a bitmap, not a
graymap. AFAIK, this always gives bad results since FreeType's
autohinter has been designed to work with graymaps only.
Werner