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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Todd Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Werner, > > > > If this isn't a bug, is there a way for me to 'tune' the hinting to > > > match the results produced by Windows XP's native rendering? > > > > The direct answer is: Sorry, no, there is no possibility to do that. > > The indirect answer is: You might privately modify Tahoma's bytecode > > so that point 25 is moved by only 0.15px to the right, say, thus > > avoiding a drop-out mode case. However, this is nothing for the > > faint-hearted :-) > > Not for the faint-hearted indeed! Thank you for breaking this one > down so masterfully. Simply observing the process by which this > behavior can be debugged is elucidating in its own right. It would > seem I've fallen down quite the rabbit hole with this whole business > of putting text to screen. > > Mounting an attempt at the bytecode certainly is tempting, though it > may be best to leave well enough alone unless I am planning a > professional career in this sort of thing. > > Rather than fiddle with the TTF instructions, I thought I might first > try adding a cleaned up version of Tahoma at 16ppem into the original > TTF as an embedded bitmap. Not the most elegant of patch jobs, but at > least one that is within reach of a mere mortal such as myself. > > As it turns out, this gives mixed results. Some applications will > prefer the embedded bitmap strikes over their proportional > counterparts while others seem to willfully ignore their existence. > In terms as which glyphs get rendered onscreen, there is no getting > around the fact that the application has the final say in the matter > with flags like FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP remaining at its disposal. > > So, my solution is about as robust as it is elegant. It seems all > that remains is the bytecode but that hill looks pretty steep. > > While the TTF format supports embedded bitmaps and I've managed to > produce such a font, I can't say I've yet come across any other fonts > that make use of this feature. Can you cite any examples of fonts > that embed bitmap strikes? Are such fonts even known to exist? If > so, are they generally provided in place of, rather than in addition > to the hints? > > Much obliged, > > .lewis > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype > >
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