On 11/15/05, Turner, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think there is a misunderstanding. We have integrated > David Chester's patch within FT2 for a long time (2.1.7 > or 2.1.8 if I remember correctly).
This does not match my experience at all, see below. > Could you produce screenshots that detail striking differences > you'd like to see removed ? Please give also complete information > regarding the font files being used, the character size, etc... OK, here's a screenshot of 4 Firefox windows using stock 2.1.10. The Microsoft fonts are installed, URLs are visible in the windows, you can visit them yourself (if you want any more detailed info let me know and I'll try to find out). I've annotated the screenshot pointing out the worst issues with character shape and kerning. http://www5.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=4013 For comparison, here's the shot of the same pages on the same system, but with FT 2.1.9 with the ft-smooth patch applied (from http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/ft-smooth-cvs.diff). As you can easily see, this one has none of the problems of 2.1.10. http://www5.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=4014 Overall, stock 2.1.10 gives much more unevenly kerned and distorted characters, this is obvious in almost every character. For me, reading text with 2.1.10 is a pain. Obviously, the problem is the autohinter, and all I ask for is to give an option to turn it off altogether (which, as I understand, is what the ft-smooth patch does). I am aware of the argument that "no autohinting makes it blurry". Yes, it's less crisp. So what? I still MUCH prefer the blurry but even and natural characters to the crisp and broken ones. I'm sure I'm not alone with that. Why can't we have it as an option? Please? Thanks for your consideration. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
