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Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode
From: |
Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode |
Date: |
Wed, 3 May 2017 19:04:38 -0400 |
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Repeat 10 times: There also exists grayscale ClearType! Not
>>> everything is LCD :-)
>>
>> Hinting a glyph after arbitrary shift will result in visibly
>> different widths.
>
> So what? I'm talking about ClearType hinting that *does* change
> advance widths if necessary, but more subtle than `normal' hinting.
> Think of `warping' but done with TrueType bytecode.
>
>> This ugliness shall not live. If you want subpixel positioning,
>> forget about hinting. I insist.
>
> Maybe we are miscommunicating. Subpixel positioning does *not* imply
> the same advance widths as with unhinted rendering.
Maybe. I am talking about width as in bounding box that may and will
change if you shift and hint.
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, (continued)
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode,
Alexei Podtelezhnikov <=
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/04
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/04
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/15
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/15
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/16
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/16
- Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/18