On Thursday 22 August 2002 12:31 am, Dustin Norlander wrote: | I very much agree with Marcus, hinting is NOT worth the effort. Consider | that hinting is really only absolutely necessary at font sizes less then | 24 (excluding <5 which are going to be illegible no matter what). | Embedding bitmaps is much easier. For my most recently released font ( | http://www.dustismo.com/fonts/Dustismo.zip ) I spent about 5 weeks | designing the glyphs, then I spent about a month trying to properly hint | ONE character and I finally gave up and embedded bitmaps for sizes 7-22 | which took about a month. It looks quit nice on my windows machine (it - | of course - looks like crap on linux). The guy who did times new roman | said he spent two years on the hinting alone, consider he could have | embedded bitmaps for the same result and probably 1/30 the time. | | If anyone here has actually tried to properly hint a font I think they | will agree that it is a most frustrating endeavor. |
Check: http://freetype.newmail.ru/misc/Journalnaya.zip You want _PFB_ (PS Type1) font. TrueType version is provided for comparision only. OpenType (otf) works rather well, but have some glitches. I have posted question on <freetype> mailing list concerning this problem | | Thanks | Dustin | cheapskatefonts.com | | At 05:52 PM 8/21/2002 +0100, you wrote: | >Another quick discussion related to font file format philosophy: | > | > Is hinting really worth the effort? | > | >Font file formats (even scalable ones) in principle ought to be | >relatively simple creatures. The only aspect that really adds enormous | >amounts of complexity, both with regard to the development of the | >renderer as well as with regard to the creation of the fonts, is the | >automated control point adjustment based on hinting information. Is that | >type of scale-independent hinting really a good idea in the long run? | > | [snip] -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
