Re: [ft-devel] How does one enable the new slight auto-hinting mode?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.04.29 at 12:25 +0200, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> > >> What happens if you define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS?
> > > 
> > > No change.
> > 
> > Hmm.  This means that you don't use auto-hinting in your desktop
> > environment, right?  Please do `git bisect' to find out which commit
> > causes the changes.
> 
> I use "slight" hinting, so native CFF and the autohinter. Commit
> 5aa6716a5eb8409f606886b5d4e63476d85a3519 is the culprit.
> 
> I take it Firefox is not rendering fonts weirdly for the rest of you?

Just took a look (I don't normally use Firefox and Chromium uses its own
Freetype copy) and yes you're right. See for another example:

ProzaLibre ttf:

http://imgur.com/a/ehs0Q

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Markus