On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:31:15 -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> It sounds to me that it's not generally true that autohinters can replace
> hinting. At least not yet.
>
> What would be interesting is if we could enable an autohinter in Firefox
> and use that in cases when we are sent a font which doesn
On 2012-10-17 2:31 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
What would be interesting is if we could enable an autohinter in Firefox
and use that in cases when we are sent a font which doesn't contain hints
(is the performance overhead, if any, acceptable?)
I don't have numbers, but I run my Linux desktop with
On Oct 17, 2012 11:20 AM, "Zack Weinberg" wrote:
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> On 2012-10-17 11:05 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
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>> AFAICS, the latest stable release is currently 2.4.10; do you know when
>> 2.4.11 is expected?
>
>
> Afraid not; we should probably ask Werner.
It sounds to me that it's not generally true that
On 2012-10-17 11:05 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
AFAICS, the latest stable release is currently 2.4.10; do you know when
2.4.11 is expected?
Afraid not; we should probably ask Werner.
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On 17/10/12 14:17, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On 2012-10-17 4:07 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same
word
with inconsi
On 2012-10-17 4:07 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same word
with inconsistent perceptual x-height, for instance.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
> surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same word
> with inconsistent perceptual x-height, for instance.
What kind of fonts? Bicameral or other?
On 2012-10-16 9:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> (Aside: In a way, it's rather sad how much engineering effort is put
> into compressing TrueType hints, when the reason for sending TrueType
> hints over the wire is that Microsoft's font rasterizer's are so
> backwards that they still need hints even t
On 2012-10-16 9:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
(Aside: In a way, it's rather sad how much engineering effort is put
into compressing TrueType hints, when the reason for sending TrueType
hints over the wire is that Microsoft's font rasterizer's are so
backwards that they still need hints even though
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