Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> Don't use .jpg for screen shots. The compression hinders analysis of the
> rendered pixels. I recommend lossless .png.

That's what I uploaded, click the image ;)

> Are you missing a units-per-em normalization somewhere? I.e., 1000 CFF
> vs. 2048 TTF? Could that be causing too much darkening?

Hm, I copied the cf2_computeDarkening() function verbatim and made a few 
changes here and there. The too-thick-ness applies to both 1000 and 2048 
UPEm fonts..

> I do not see this problem with the emboldening in ftview mode 2 even
> at small sizes, where the embodening strength is a lit gentler.

Oh, you're right. Now that's weird (in a good way)... will investigate.