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

[vern adams]

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.
> 
> It is available from
> 
>    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
> 
> or
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
>   Werner
> 
> 
> PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
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>    delay of up to 24 hours.  In case of problems use
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> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input,
> remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all
> glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's
> autohinting module.  The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the
> autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.
> 
> The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see
> `src/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description.  Note that the library
> itself won't get installed currently.
> 
> A simple command-line interface to the library is the demo program
> `ttfautohint'; after compilation and installation, say
> 
>  ttfautohint --help
> 
> for usage information, or say
> 
>  man ttfautohint
> 
> to read its manual page.
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> New in 0.4:
> 
> * The bytecode has been changed to `create' twilight points.  This should
>  avoid rendering artifacts on some platforms.
> 
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