Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 06/17/11 23:53, Werner LEMBERG wrote: If I understand you correctly, there currently isn't a possibility to get such info from HarfBuzz easily (if at all)? No, currently there isn't. behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Finally, there is the problem of glyphs which can't be addressed with a cmap directly, like small caps which are activated by an OpenType feature. Similar to FreeType's autohinter, such glyphs don't get any special consideration and are treated by the default hinting module (in FreeType this

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
One major problem still remains which I have to resolve in the next days: Composite glyphs are rendered incorrectly. I've fixed that now. However, letting the autohinter handle subglyphs separately will always produce inferior results if compared to handling all subglyphs together at the same

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-16 Thread vernon adams
great. but i am embarrassed to admit that i have built the library but have not found how to use the 'autohint' function :) a quick howto, please! vern On 16 Jun 2011, at 21:20, Werner LEMBERG wrote: One major problem still remains which I have to resolve in the next days: Composite

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[Vern, I take the liberty to answer on the list also.] That's very interesting and gives some pretty good results. If no-one else has done so i am happy to run some specimen tests produce screenshots. This would be great! Please wait a few days until I've fixed the problem with composite

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-15 Thread vernon adams
Werner, Sounds good. I think i remember you saying that ttfautohint will not have a GUI. Is that still the case? vernon On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:28, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [Vern, I take the liberty to answer on the list also.] That's very interesting and gives some pretty good results.

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I think i remember you saying that ttfautohint will not have a GUI. Is that still the case? Yes. ttfautohint is a library (with a single API function :-), and the `hint' program is just a small demo using it. Writing a GUI front-end might be a nice job later on, but it has no priority for me

Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!

2011-06-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 06/15/11 06:28, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Finally, there is the problem of glyphs which can't be addressed with a cmap directly, like small caps which are activated by an OpenType feature. Similar to FreeType's autohinter, such glyphs don't get any special consideration and are treated by the