I might give it a try, thank you.<br><br>Maarten.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Sampson</b> <<a href="mailto:ats@offog.org">ats@offog.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"Maarten Maathuis" <<a href="mailto:madman2003@gmail.com">madman2003@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> I do have one small question, why is the autohinter so ugly? (Is<br>> this on purpose?)<br><br>It's an autohinter -- it's doing the best job it can with the limited
<br>information it's got. The Freetype guys have done wonders with it over<br>the last couple of years; it's not quite as good as a human type<br>designer can manage yet, but in the latest releases it's often hard to
<br>tell the difference.<br><br>I've found it's worth playing with unhinted font rendering if you're<br>on a big display, though, since that avoids the glyph distortion that<br>hinting introduces. David Turner and Jinghua Luo (among others) did
<br>some experimental work which used FIR filtering to produce extremely<br>nice unhinted text rendering on subpixel-capable displays without the<br>colour fringing that cairo/libXft usually produce; I've put the<br>patches I'm currently using here:
<br><br> <a href="http://offog.org/stuff/cairo-fir.diff">http://offog.org/stuff/cairo-fir.diff</a><br> <a href="http://offog.org/stuff/libXft-fir.diff">http://offog.org/stuff/libXft-fir.diff</a><br><br>(If you want to see how this looks without messing with your system
<br>libraries, the Gargoyle IF interpreter has a built-in text renderer<br>that uses the same approach:<br><br> <a href="http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/">http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/</a><br><br>Trying to figure out why Gargoyle's text looked nice on my display was
<br>how I found the patches above...)<br><br>--<br>Adam Sampson <<a href="mailto:ats@offog.org">ats@offog.org</a>> <<a href="http://offog.org/">http://offog.org/</a>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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