[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 8610] Ugly Dejavu Greek fonts in Fedora Core 6 (t1, t2, t3, devel)

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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 "χ")!

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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