[cairo-bugs] [Bug 23333] Mismatches hinting at certain glyph pixelsizes.

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Mon Aug 17 16:38:56 PDT 2009


http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23333





--- Comment #8 from Jud Craft <craftjml+freedesktopbugs at gmail.com>  2009-08-17 16:38:55 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> When you hint the glyph outlines and the same glyph is not .8 pixel wider, you
> MUST also change the metrics-hinted width, otherwise the result will look ugly.
>  That's all.
> 

Well, that makes sense.

It just seems dumb that the resultant glyph is even more inaccurate size-wise
than just using the original unhinted metric.  But if the result would be ugly
without metric correction, then alas I guess I have to deal with it.

How do you disable metric-hinting, anyway?  I didn't even know that was
possible; I don't think I'll like it, but I am curious.

Also, one last thing...shouldn't slight-hinting give you the same width no
matter what?  I thought slight-hinting only hinted the vertical direction,
never horizontal, and wouldn't need any metric correction for width.


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