Re: [ft] The fastest way to query size of a rendered bitmap

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Re: [ft] The fastest way to query size of a rendered bitmap

From:	Werner LEMBERG
Subject:	Re: [ft] The fastest way to query size of a rendered bitmap
Date:	Sat, 16 Sep 2017 07:16:22 +0200 (CEST)

>> Why it says the rendering is necessary for 1-bit bitmaps, but not
>> 8-bit? Maybe I missed something?
> 
> Perhaps because hinting is more important when you don’t have
> anti-aliasing as well.

No, it's not related to hinting.  It's rather dropout control, cf.

  https://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeScanConversion.mspx

I've added a link to the tutorial.


    Werner

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