On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
I think we are much better off shipping the unhinted version then, letting the
Freetype autohinter do its job.
Agreed. So that takes care of the question of including the HTML file
with the comparison of the two.
As far
He wrote back, here's what I've learned:
1. He uses a program called Fontographer by Fontlab [1] which
apparently includes a couple of algorithms for autohinting. He said
that it would be a huge task to do the hinting manually for such a
large number of glyphs, so it's all done by the software.
2.
I've contacted upstream about the hinting, I'll report when I hear back.
In the mean time, can anyone offer any advice on the other points
besides hinting?
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On 03/05/2015 09:02 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
(Unless they are bad hints. Slightly
ironic that Cantarell looks better with the autohinter.)
Cantarell has been broken for a while, but nothing has been done to fix it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647003
On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 02:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Are those hinting instructions manually tuned or autogenerated with
ttfautohint? If it's the latter, there's no value in them because Freetype
already uses essentially the same autohinting algorithms ttfautohint uses,
ttfautohint was
Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
1. He uses a program called Fontographer by Fontlab [1] which
apparently includes a couple of algorithms for autohinting. He said
that it would be a huge task to do the hinting manually for such a
large number of glyphs, so it's all done by the software.
Ewww, a
Hello,
A few days ago I was fooling around with Unicode stuff and I noticed
that the Symbola font had been updated upstream, but not in Fedora, so
I decided to have a go at repackaging it and submitting the spec file
to the maintainer. Turns out it was more fun than I thought it would
be.
1.
Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
1. There are now 2 fonts, the usual Symbola.ttf plus another one,
Symbola_hint.ttf, which includes hinting instructions. I had a really
hard time trying to find differences between the two,
Are those hinting instructions manually tuned or autogenerated with
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Are those hinting instructions manually tuned or autogenerated with
ttfautohint?
I haven't the faintest idea. Should I contact upstream, or is there a
way to extract that information from the font tables? The creator
