[Fontconfig] [ft-devel] Re: Why did the default font settings change around freetype 2.3 release and why isn't there at least a simple "no blurry fonts" settings?

[Maarten Maathuis]

Is this consired a bug, because this only make the fonts thicker.

Maarten.

On 5/17/07, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> > 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
>
>   http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-3/lemberg.pdf
>
> 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
>
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