Re: [ft-devel] Alignment of top of capital letters to pixel grid, autohinter often 1 pixel off compared to unhinted outline

2015-09-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Hm, but I thought increasing the x-height is disabled by default > because ..._MAX is set to 0? No, the `much more increasing' is disabled, not the `increasing', which is still slightly preferred to decreasing. > Is this effect maybe related to missing subpixel hinting? No. > Stems must be

Re: [ft-devel] Alignment of top of capital letters to pixel grid, autohinter often 1 pixel off compared to unhinted outline

2015-09-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 1. Download > https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans > 2. Load OpenSans-Regular.ttf in ftview, look at sizes 10, 13, 15, 19 > 3. Press A and B and compare where the bytecode and the autohinter > align the top of capital letters, also press h to compare with the >

[ft-devel] Alignment of top of capital letters to pixel grid, autohinter often 1 pixel off compared to unhinted outline

2015-09-21 Thread Nikolaus Waxweiler
While testing Alexei's scaling trick, I rediscovered an old source of irritation (apart from the barely visible dot on the "i"). 1. Download https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans 2. Load OpenSans-Regular.ttf in ftview, look at sizes 10, 13, 15, 19 3. Press A and B and