On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 12:42, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 10:40, Han Boetes a �crit : > > > BTW, the hinting enhancement from David Chester have been merged in > > > Freetype CVS.. > > > > But this release mixes the best of both worlds. Nice rounding and > > no mist on straight lines. Only letters like W and y are still not > > perfect, but we are getting there. > > > > Only one thing: the plf package uses pattented hinting from windows > > which imho looks quite bad compared to this. Only now I have to override > > urpmi's behaviour to get the latest versions and ignore the plf package. > > I suppose there are people who prefer the plf way so I am afraid this is > > the only solution. :|
> I'd like to have other people feedback on this point. If everyone agrees, the > plf package could be dropped. I currently use the plf package, I reckon the rendering is still clearly superior to the current mdk package. When 2.1.4 comes out with this David Chester stuff, I'll let you know if I still think so. -- adamw
