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


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