Re: [Freetype] Autohinting?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> |  That is very interesting.  How does one manually re-hint their
> |  Type 1 fonts?  Do you need expensive Adobe software?  Is such
> |  software available for Linux?  I imagine you are getting a grid
> |  on your screen with the glyph shown with big pixels, and you can
> |  move the dots around where you want then write that modified font
> |  to a file?
> 
> I use *old*, *very old* version of FontLab (http://www.fontlab.com)
> They have ver.4.0 available at a moment, it costs around $400.  This
> proigram is available for MS Windows, and, may be, for Macintosh.
> It's not available for Linux.

pfaedit is free and supports automatic hinting also.  You should
actually test whether it covers your needs.

> Than you check a whole font character by character, and: * enhance
> outlines (remove unnecessay nodes, add nodes at extreme points, move
> some points, etc.)

pfaedit can do that for most points automatically.


    Werner