Is this consired a bug, because this only make the fonts thicker. Maarten. <div>On 5/17/07, Werner LEMBERG <<a href="mailto:wl@gnu.org">wl@gnu.org</a> > wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> > I do have one small question, why is the autohinter so ugly? (Is > this on purpose?) You are joking, aren't you?  You should read, for example, this article   <a href="http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-3/lemberg.pdf"> http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-3/lemberg.pdf</a> to see how the autohinter is (more or less) working.  On the other hand, native bytecode hinting allows the interpreter to precisely move points so that the outline gets rasterized optimally. In general I think that the autohinter works *excellent* (thanks David!), with some glitches here and there due to bugs still in the code.  Additionally, some (non-latin) scripts don't work really well because a proper autohinting module is still missing.     Werner </blockquote></div>