Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

[vernon adams]

Werner,

Sounds good.

I think i remember you saying that ttfautohint will not have a GUI. Is that 
still the case? 

vernon


On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:28, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
> [Vern, I take the liberty to answer on the list also.]
> 
>> That's very interesting and gives some pretty good results.  If
>> no-one else has done so i am happy to run some specimen tests &
>> produce screenshots.
> 
> This would be great!  Please wait a few days until I've fixed the
> problem with composite glyphs (I'm nearly done, and the solution was
> much easier than expected); I'll then send another mail to the list.
> 
>> Are there plans with ttfautohint to give the user any abilities to
>> vary/manipulate hinting parameters?
> 
> Yes.  However, I need input from experienced designers like you who
> tell me what shall be configurable.  The first parameter to be added
> is the size range covered by hinting.  For the moment, it is fixed to
> 8<=ppem<=1000.  Another one is whether the original font's outline
> shall be used, or whether the font's original hinting shall be applied
> (at the font units level, which means 2048 ppem for most TrueType
> fonts).  Some fonts like ArialMT *always* apply hints to some
> composite glyphs to shift one or more subglyphs.  Note that the latter
> option will probably take some time to implement.
> 
> Finally, there is the problem of glyphs which can't be addressed with
> a cmap directly, like small caps which are activated by an OpenType
> feature.  Similar to FreeType's autohinter, such glyphs don't get any
> special consideration and are treated by the default hinting module
> (in FreeType this is the `cjk' module currently, and in ttfautohint it
> can be either `dummy' or `latin', to be controlled by another
> yet-to-be-written configuration option :-).  This is quite a generic
> problem and needs separate attention; for the moment it is beyond my
> work on ttfautohint.
> 
> So please comment and make suggestions!
> 
> 
>    Werner