David Turner finally admitted:
I previously thought that implementing sub-pixel hinting and positioning would be the next step required to improve text rendering with FreeType, but obviously simply using the LSB/RSB deltas to adjust inter-character space has much more obvious benefits.
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This means changing the caching mechanism used by libraries/applications, which can be more or less complex, depending on their implementation.
I have been lobbying for years on this mailing list, that feetype is actually the best place to deal with autokerning, because it is just too interdependent with autohinting. My question again. Why is it better to pass lsb/rsb knowledge to higher level than to teach freetype to render a single word and provide an interface for that? Do we really need to replicate the same code in every application? _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
