Question about F10 Freetype's autohinter
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Mon Apr 27 21:56:51 UTC 2009
On 04/27/2009 05:17 PM, Jud Craft wrote:
> Does grayscale full-hinting not work in Fedora's freetype?
>
> Switching between full and medium hinting seems to have no effect in
> F10. The font rendering does not change. I am certain I have no
> bizarre ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf settings.
Nothing that we patch here. Try with upstream FreeType?
behdad
> Full hinting _does_ work when subpixel-smoothing is used. But if I
> recall, the fact that subpixel-smoothing works at all in F10 is due to
> an oversight by the developers, which will be rolled back in F11.
>
> Is full-hinting only available when subpixel-smoothing is on? I
> recall that Ubuntu seems to support both full and medium hinting, even
> in grayscale mode. (Although the last time I tried it was back around
> 7.10, so it's highly possible things have changed since then).
>
> It is true that Ubuntu also uses the patented bytecode interpreter
> instead of the autohinter. However, even if you enable that in Fedora
> with freetype-freeworld, there still seems to be no distinction
> between medium/full hinting in Fedora, when using grayscale smoothing.
>
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