In athens, there are "hints" you can set.
(CairoFontOptions/hintMetricsOff/hintMetricsOn/hintStyleFull ....)
I played a bit with different settings. Changing this settings change
the output, but I can not get it to look
like with the freetype plugin. I understand that this can not look
equally, because the FreeTypePlugin and caire work differently,
but the athens result looks bad compared with the other one.
- Pixel fitting. (The aliasing going on at the top of characters)
Put Hinting: None in FreeType advanced features, and you will
probably see something similar to the Athens rendering.
Yes, we can change the freetypeplugin setting and cairofontoption
setting to make the output look equally - ugly :)
Nicolai
Igor explained to me that FreeType offers a degenerated mode that when
the font does have the information for bold, kerning,....
computes a "guessed and approximated" default. Cairo does not offer this
api else Athens would use it.
So what would be interesting is to test using font having all the
information to see if Cairo display well the fonts.
Stef
