Hello, Thanks for you reply. On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:01:35 -0400 James Cloos wrote:
> AFAICT, in pango-view, with --hinting=auto, the text matches ftdiff(1)’s > results when the delta flag is set. This suggests that pango does what > you want. > > I currently have pango-1.28.1 installed, FWIW. Hmm, I installed pango 1.28.0 (that's the latest one I could get a package of under openSUSE), and it still matches the no-deltas rendering of ft-view. 1.28.1's NEWS file doesn't suggest that there were any relevant changes. http://artificialtime.com/ft/ftdiff_lsb_rsb_pangoview.png This screenshot displays the following: $ ftdiff -r 96 -s 8 -f ~/ft_text.txt arialbd.ttf $ pango-view --font="Arial Bold 8" --dpi 96 --hinting=auto ~/ft_text.txt You have to press the following keys to get that output in ftdiff: "d h r 2 r 1 r". > As a side note, fc-match(1) tells me that 8 pt at 96 dpi is 10⅔ px; a > 10⅔ px font at my display’s 133 dpi is approximently 5 7/9 pt. Tiny! The 10pt @96dpi fonts on my display look quite large. But with web designers hardcoding 8pt fonts (or sometimes even 8px fonts), the situation described above (8pt @96dpi) is quite common. There's also the fact that e.g. Webkit has hardcoded 96 dpi. Thanks, Alexander _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
