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Re: [ft-devel] autohinter for LCD


From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] autohinter for LCD
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:42:19 -0400

>>> I am shocked to see that autohinter snaps stems when targeting LCD
>>> as if MONO [...]
> 
> I don't see a problem.  The stem snapping happens at the threefold
> horizontal resolution, so what?

Subpixel rendering obliterates the concept of pixel boundary itself. Anything 
but light does not make any sense.

>>> I suspect this bug is intentional to deal with color fringes
>>> without filtering.
> 
> Maybe, yes.  However, I don't see a bug.  You first have to prove that
> you get better LCD results without stem snapping :-)

I'll do it if you insist.


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