Hi, Thanks for your reply.
On 11 June 2015 at 23:45, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's not clear to me if this is a bug or an intended change in behaviour. > > It's intentional. Thanks for clarifying that and for your explanation. Is this covered in the Changelog somewhere? > Unfortunately, the DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold font (version 2.34) is > lying: It contains both an `fpgm' and `prep' table, but not a single > glyph is hinted! Is there an easy way to see whether those tables exist and if there's no hinted glyphs? > The proper solution of course is to fix the font. It seems like the instructions are intentionally disabled due to Condensed's "experimental" status: <https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/blob/master/scripts/generate.py#L37> AFAICT they use `fontforge` to do the font generation--could this be an issue with fontforge generating the 'fpgm' and 'prep' tables when it shouldn't? > The second best solution is to set up a FontConfig rule that enforces > auto-hinting for this font. >From looking into this and trying it, am I correct in thinking this won't work with PIL/Pillow because it doesn't use fontconfig? Thanks again for your help on this. --Philip; _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
