Michele Puccini wrote:
> I can understand the complexity behind glyphs, fonts, graphics and
> text, but
> .. is there a specific reason why we need to align to the pixel grid ?
> Maybe
> we would get the same features of the Texlayout by rasterizing
> outlines and
> effects straight to the Graphics and getting sub-pixel precision.
> Maybe not.
I'm no expert, but these links might be helpful in explaining why grid
fitting is (sometimes) necessary:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/background.html
This is longer, but has figures:
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM02/Chap2.html
-David
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