Hi, bulia byak a écrit :
>Sorry for being obnoxious... but, is this code (rendering similar to >2.1.9 with David Chester's patch) now in CVS, by any chance? > >Thanks! > > > WARNING: INSTALLING THE CURRENT CVS WILL PROBABLY BREAK YOUR SYSTEM Sort of, the LIGHT hinting mode has been modified to duplicate its behaviour, but: - it's not the default (you need to select "light" hinting in the font preferences dialog, or tweaking your fonts.conf file) - it doesn't force the auto-hinter on all font formats, like David Chester's patch. I'll try to see in the future I've been able to test it on my desktop with a set of horrible linker tweaks that event I don't fully understand, but the rendering changes work well. Curiously, it looks a lot better on a desktop than in ftview :-) I'm now only focusing on getting all the correct bits and pieces to be able to install the current sources on a machine without breaking everything. This will most certainly require upgrading your versions of GLib, Pango, FontConfig, libXft and a few others. Also, some deprecated cache APIs are probably going to come back since there are a lot of packages that already depend on them, and that shouldn't imply problems in the internals. More on this later, - David Turner - The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org) >On 11/18/05, Turner, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>ME TOO. David, I've been using your patch for a long time and I love >>>it. Personally I just cannot understand how someone can so badly break >>>the kerning and character shapes for some marginal gain in crispness. >>>But, EVEN if this is not made the default, I don't see why it's not >>>included even as an option! >>> >>>In case the FT developers keep being unflexible on this issue, David, >>>can you please update your patch so it works with 2.1.10? >>> >>> >>> >>To be honest, I was unaware of this patch, or simply completely forgot >>about it when it's been presented. >> >>It's not like we're not trying to improve the engine's rendering. We >>have integrated David Chester's improvements, but this needed a mostly >>complete rewrite of his code, because a quick hack is not always the >>best way to implement a feature. >> >>The same is true for the current patch. It's much shorter though, >>so it should be easy to integrate. >> >>Also, notice that some people complain because the LIGHT hinting >>mode creates color fringes in LCD-decimated mode, so strong hinting >>will still be required for some users, at least. >> >> >>Thanks, >> >>- David Turner >>- The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org) >> >> >> >> >>>-- >>>bulia byak >>>Inkscape. Draw Freely. >>>http://www.inkscape.org >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Freetype-devel mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel >>> >>> >>> >>*********************************************************************************** >>Information contained in this email message is confidential and may be >>privileged, and is intended only for use of the individual or entity named >>above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the >>employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you >>are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this >>communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication >>in error, please immediately notify the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the >>original message. >>*********************************************************************************** >> >> >> >> > > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Freetype-devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel > > _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
