[ft-devel] freetype.com
Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com
Despicable domain squatting and negative advertising. Shame on them. Graham Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
[ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter
Hi, In Fedora rawhide I enabled the patented bytecode interpretter a while ago since the patents expired. I've received reports since that this has resulted in degraded rendering of some fonts. Apparently, from what I hear, with Medium hinting, the autohinter is not used even if the font doesn't have any bytecode. The desired behavior is to use the autohinter for any glyphs without bytecode hints. Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532 Is there any way we can resolve this? Otherwise I'd have to turn it back off again. Thanks, behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter
In Fedora rawhide I enabled the patented bytecode interpretter a while ago since the patents expired. I've received reports since that this has resulted in degraded rendering of some fonts. Apparently, from what I hear, with Medium hinting, the autohinter is not used even if the font doesn't have any bytecode. This is the right behaviour IMHO. A TrueType font is expected to be self-contained, this is, the rendering result should always be the same, independent of the rasterizer. The desired behavior is to use the autohinter for any glyphs without bytecode hints. Definitely not! Either the whole font gets autohinted, or the bytecode interpreter is used. Mixing those two hinting strategies doesn't give good results since the global hints are calculated differently. Basically, I think this is a FontConfig issue; all TrueType fonts which need autohinting should be configured as such. On the other hand I see the problem you have. However, there is currently no possibility (built into FreeType, I mean) to find out whether a font has TrueType hints or not. It's straightforward to add such a function, and FontConfig might use it during the creation of the cache. What kind of interface would you like to have? I can imagine that you want to check the presence of a font's hinting instructions for a given range of input codes (not that I would really like this, but...) Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com
Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... Despicable domain squatting and negative advertising. Shame on them. Indeed! I've seen this the first time, and it seems that FreeType is a threat to them, especially since their `iType' product has the same target market: embedded devices. I think we should react, but how? Contacting them directly? Telling the slashdot.org people? Any other ideas? Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com
Excuse me ,I don't understand why we need tell the slashdot.org people? Well, there is no `need'. Often, if a company gets bad press it is willing to change the issue. This was my idea. I can't tell you whether this is the right solution (probably not). I simply don't know yet how to proceed. American and/or English companies differ enormously compared to German and Austrian ones... Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com
Excuse me ,I don't understand why we need tell the slashdot.org people? Another reason for my first reaction (this is, to contact slashdot) is the impudence of this negative advertisement. Up to now I've never seen such a thing, and it is probably worth to be seen by many people. On the other hand, I don't know whether this is common in the cyber world. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
