Matthias, On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Matthias Kramm <[email protected]> wrote: > > pdf2swf transcodes fonts. It takes the fonts polygons and uses them to > create a FlashType font. As pdf2swf only uses the polygons in a font, > and nothing else, hinting doesn't make any difference- it would only > affect how freetype would create bitmaps from the font, but not the > polygon outlines. > Hence, we don't need hinting, and leaving it turned on actually did > cause problems with fonts that had incorrect hinting information or > broken bytecode. >
The hinting change has definitely made a huge difference for me, two of the most commonly used Traditional Chinese fonts were unreadable before, and made perfect by removing FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING. Those fonts were definitely outline based (see FontForge/font2swf screenshots earlier in thread: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2010-10/msg00063.html). I can send you an example PDF if you're interested. Thanks, -Irving
