RE: [ft-devel] Force PMingLiU like font do HINTING

[Sergey Tolstov]

I see now. Thank you.
Do those tricky fonts' gasp tables suggest not to use hinting even
though they look bad without it?
Or they look bad when a programmer asks to turn the hinting off ignoring
the gasp table suggestion?

Thanks,
Sergey Tolstov 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:01 AM
> To: Sergey Tolstov
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Force PMingLiU like font do HINTING
> 
> 
> > How is it possible to decide from the font it is unusable with
> > FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING?
> 
> Unfortunately, it isn't.  We have a hard-coded list of `tricky' fonts
> for this purpose.
> 
> 
>     Werner