Good stuff! The A is much better On 12 Apr 2014 19:54, "Werner LEMBERG" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Folks, > > > I've just improved the recognition of strong points in the > auto-hinter. From the ChangeLog file: > > [autofit] Redesign the recognition algorithm of strong points. > > In particular, local extrema without horizontal or vertical segments > are better recognized: > > + A + D > \ / > \ / > \ / > \ / > \ + C > \ / > B +/ > > If the distances AB and CD are large, point B wasn't previously > detected as an extremum since the `ft_corner_is_flat' function > `swallowed' BC regardless of its direction, tagging point B as weak. > The next iteration started at B and made `ft_corner_is_flat' swallow > point C, tagging it as weak also, et voilà. > > To improve that, another pass gets now performed before calling > `ft_corner_is_flat' to improve the `topology' of an outline: A > sequence of non-horizontal or non-vertical vectors that point into > the same quadrant are handled as a single, large vector. > > Additionally, distances of near points are now accumulated, which > makes the auto-hinter handle them as if they were prepended to the > next non-near vector. > > This generally improves the auto-hinter's rendering results. > > Please test! Note that the same change has been applied to > ttfautohint also; attached are two images that demonstrate the > expected improvements for some fonts. > > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel > >
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