Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint

[Miles Bader]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> Note that, contrary to the autohinter, generating such fonts is not a
> time-critical issue.  In other words, it might be possible (probably
> in a follow-up project) to add further, more time-consuming analysis
> to the glyph shapes for improving the output bytecode.
>
> Ideas, suggestions, comments are highly welcomed!  I'm especially
> interested in thoughts how possible function parameters might look
> like to control the generation of the hints.  Currently, it would be a
> black box process (essentially the same as the autohinter).

Perhaps some such "slowish but high quality" optimizations could be
added to the autohinter itself, as an optional mode for platforms
powerful enough handle it well (presumably, deselectable at
compile-time, for embedded platforms etc).

-Miles

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