Re: [ft] weird hinting behavior

[Derek B. Noonburg]

I just checked the email I received via the mailing list, and the
attachment looks correct, so I'm not sure what happened there.

I'll put the file on my ftp site:

ftp://ftp.glyphandcog.com/pub/tmp/f25.ttf

Thanks for taking a look.

- Derek


On 2013 Sep 19, jason campbell wrote:
> Sounds like a defect in hinting instructions, but I can't look at them, as
> the file came through corrupted.
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Derek B. Noonburg
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> 
>> I'm seeing some really strange hinting behavior with the attached font
>> (which is a subset pulled out of a PDF file).
>>
>> In particular, look at the "-" character:
>>
>> ftview -m x-x-x-x 20 f25.ttf
>>
>> If you change the font size, one point at a time, the hyphen comes and
>> goes -- at some sizes it looks fine, at other sizes it vanishes
>> entirely.
>>
>> This only happens when using the native TrueType hints.  (Auto-hinting
>> works fine.)  I suspect there may be a bug in the font's hints -- is
>> there any way to verify that?
>>
>> This is with FreeType 2.5.0.1 and ft2demos 2.5.0.
>>
>> - Derek
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