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Re: [ft-devel] Hinting glitch?
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Collyer, Oliver, SI |
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Re: [ft-devel] Hinting glitch? |
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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:02:41 +0000 |
Thankyou Werner.
I just quickly loaded it up in Notepad under Windows 7 ClearType and it showed
the same glitch so I guess it must be a bug in the hints for the font or
something...
Sent from my iPigeon
On 19 Apr 2011, at 13:37, "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Attached is how the font "NanumGothic.ttf" (downloadable from here :
>> http://hangeul.naver.com/download.nhn scroll down to the 7 green
>> boxes and it's the third one along the top row) looks:
>>
>> @ Pixel Size 13
>>
>> [cid:C2DDDF1F-E850-4D87-B865-45318241A5C1]
>>
>> Notice how the letter i appears to be too tall in relation to the
>> other letters.
>>
>> @ Pixel Size 14
>>
>> Now the i looks ok:
>>
>> [cid:FD1C366E-B3AA-4D86-ADF4-BCEEB6D2BC19]
>>
>> When hinted with the FT hinter, the letter i remains consistent.
>
> I can confirm this observation, however, I don't see any problem with
> the FreeType code, and debugging doesn't show a problem either: There
> is no border case which could cause a rounding to a different vertical
> value.
>
> It would be interesting to see what Windows does, testing with both
> ClearType switched on and off.
>
>
> Werner