Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

[Torsten Giebl]

Hello !


> > 2. One thing that, in my mind, is really bad about the Autohinter
> >     that when i compare a Text written in Times New Roman and
> >     Liberation Serif, which should have the same width, do not have
> >     the same width.
> >     Is there any way to fix this?
>
> No.  Metrics and glyph shapes have no direct relation.  Normally,
> TrueType fonts contain special bytecode which controls the glyph
> width.  To make Times New Roman and Liberation Serif have the same
> width, the bytecode for controlling the width must do the same.  The
> autohinter doesn't access this bytecode.

Would it be possible to accomplish the same width and height without
using the Bytecode Interpreter somehow ?

GUI Toolkits mostly have layout managers to handle different font sizes.

Even Web Browsers and Office Programms can handle different font sizes,
but there it would be a matter of beauty. Not all people want
to install the M$ fonts and the Liberation Fonts are a good alternative,
but some people use the BCI and some use the Autohinter and different sizes
in text documents can really be a killer, when you swap text documents
with other people.


CU