Re: [ft-devel] Turning off stem darkening by default until all drivers support it?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I noticed that Liberation Sans/Serif/Mono and Open Sans looked
> pretty ClearType-y with hintfull but I wasn't sure about the advance
> widths.  Is there any way to detect this from within FT_Load_Glyph
> or something so that native ClearType fonts with linear advance
> widths can be send to the native hinter?

Recent browser *always* use linear advance widths, regardless whether
a glyph's bytecode is changing this – even in Native ClearType hinting
mode.

> 2. I think it might be best to disable stem darkening for now when
> including Jan's patch (my suggestion) for the sake of consistent
> rendering.

OK.  To summarize: `slight mode' would mean stem darkening for CFFs
but no stem darkening for auto-hinted fonts, right?

> My planned blog post would still stand, I'd just call them
> experimental features and work on refactoring stem darkening support
> in the future.

Please massage your blog entry so that it can be added to the
documentation of `no-stem-darkening' in `ftautoh.h'.


    Werner