[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 8610] Ugly Dejavu Greek fonts in Fedora Core 6
(t1, t2, t3, devel)
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Fri Oct 27 03:54:10 PDT 2006
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------- Additional Comments From bl.bugs at gmail.com 2006-10-27 03:54 -------
(In reply to comment #16)
> Oh, and another observation. In attachment #7519 [edit], in box #3, some of
> the characters are not even Dejavu Sans (like "Ï")!
I presume you mean DejaVu Serif there. Anyway, the glyph looks like it's DV
Serif to me, the autohinter just stretches some parts, while it doesn't
stretch other parts, which makes the glyph look different. η has the same
behaviour. Why it happens? I don't know, you should ask the Freetype people
who are in charge of the autohinter.
I think the autohinter sees the height of the curved lines, which is a little
higher than the straight lines, and interprets it as a significant difference
at those sizes. That's the difference between manual hinting and autohinting:
the autohinter has to guess all that with some clever algorithms, in manual
hinting we tell how the glyph should look. With the effect that the autohinter
guesses wrongly from time to time, and makes the glyphs look bad.
Anyway, I don't remember any reports about this earlier. Maybe try out an
earlier Freetype version, to see if it's only in the latest versions of
Freetype. You should really report this to the Freetype project.
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