Re: Pd: Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-03-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So you're saying the only anti-aliasing is overkill > anti-aliasing. ? What do you mean? > Who thought of this as a good idea? It is ever so slightly more > accurate but really not worth it on lower end hardware such as > embedded systems. 4*4 oversampling is a high priority feature >

Pd: Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-03-02 Thread piotrunio-2004
Uhhh I accidentally saved the text file with the wrong tools. Reuploading a fixed text file. So youre saying the only anti-aliasing is overkill anti-aliasing. Who thought of this as a good idea? It is ever so slightly more accurate but really not worth it on lower end hardware such as

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-03-02 Thread piotrunio-2004
So youre saying the only anti-aliasing is overkill anti-aliasing. Who thought of this as a good idea? It is ever so slightly more accurate but really not worth it on lower end hardware such as embedded systems. 4*4 oversampling is a high priority feature request. I also suggest more

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > [about displaying embedded bitmaps] > > Uhh I do NOT care about DirectWrite rendering and I never intend to > optimize my fonts for it because there are so many flavors of > DirectWrite and each application chooses its own, so it's entirely > meaningless to do this. But if you are in GDI

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-21 Thread piotrunio-2004
/* /* //Microsoft Calibri has embed bitmaps, but they don't appear to be //used, ever, at all.  Instead, GDI uses its broken hinting.  I've //heard Microsoft Windows has to detect for several Japanese //characters in the font before using embed bitmaps. I will ask a Microsoft guy about

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Microsoft Calibri has embed bitmaps, but they don't appear to be >> used, ever, at all. Instead, GDI uses its broken hinting. I've >> heard Microsoft Windows has to detect for several Japanese >> characters in the font before using embed bitmaps. > > I will ask a Microsoft guy about the

Re: Pd: Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-18 Thread Nikolaus Waxweiler
Your mail is shown to me as empty with an attached .txt file.

Pd: Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-17 Thread piotrunio-2004
/* // Uh, what are you doing? ???  My e-mail contained a CC field to the 'freetype-devel' list. Your reply was only to me, and you omitted the list.  You probably have to press the 'Reply to all' button. // Do I still have to embed plaintext files to send messages? Yes, please, since your

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Uh, what are you doing? ??? My e-mail contained a CC field to the 'freetype-devel' list. Your reply was only to me, and you omitted the list. You probably have to press the 'Reply to all' button. > Do I still have to embed plaintext files to send messages? Yes, please, since your e-mail

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-16 Thread piotrunio-2004
[please dont remove the CC fields] Uh, what are you doing? Do I still have to embed plaintext files to send messages?

Re: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[please don't remove the CC fields] > > While the current increase of computing power would allow for > > better algorithms to handle B/W auto-hinting, it becomes moot at > > the same time because the increase of today's screen resolution > > even for the cheapest displays makes hinting

Fw: Odp: Re: ttfautohint — additional feature requests.

2020-02-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Piotr's reply. --- Begin Message --- Plaintext file. Be sure your txt interpreter can read UTF-8, the UTF-8 BOM and the Microsoft newlines. /* While the current increase of computing power would allow for better algorithms to handle B/W auto-hinting, it becomes moot at the same time because