Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released

[vernon adams]

Hi,
After some quick tests it seems that the same render issues on iOS & 
printing to postscript printers on OSX remain, or at least partly(?) I 
should later test same font autohinted with v0.3 and look for 
differences/similarities.

I have put iOS screenshots at http://newtypography.co.uk/ttfautohint/
Shots are from iOS 4.3.3, and i will test iOS5 later.

I have been looking at the test fonts to see if maybe the font outlines 
or points are causing the issue but they seem healthy and render fine on 
all other scenarios. I have been trying to work out which glyph forms 
are most likely to get malformed but it doesnt seem to follow a pattern. 
Postscript printing on OSX gives the same malformations on the same glyphs.

-v

> Thanks Werner.
> I will test this tonight :)
>
> Also - i have noticed ttfautohint has limitations when it comes to instructing 
> very light weighted fonts.
> The autohinter is creating instructions that produce much too thin stems. The 
> uniformity of the stems seems good :) but they are simply too thin and 
> disappear at below 18-16 px.
> Could there be a way to set the autohinter to impose a minimum size of stem 
> widths, for example??
>
> I will post you screenshots later of the issue.
>
> -v
>
>
> On 27 Oct 2011, at 16:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > ttfautohint 0.4 has been released.  If you have had rendering problems
> > on Apple computers, please try this version.  Theoretically, those
> > issues should no longer be there.