On 15/02/2008, Steve White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the most important outstanding bugs is the very old > bug #5553: Characters deformed in Windows apps > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?5553 > > (Please, refrain from emotional and jingoistic reactions.) > > FreeFont TrueType fonts look just awful in Windows applications: I > tried several. > They look like badly scaled bitmaps. > I intend to address this issue for the next release. > > Does anybody know why this happens, and what can be done about it? > Is it hinting? Some switch in the font info I don't know about? >
It is due to the lack of hinting indeed. Cheers, --- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
