Re: [Freetype] Bad truetype rendering? still not satisfied!!

[David Turner]

Just a clarification:

  the glyphs are not identical in your example. It
seems that you didn't use FT2 correctly and are displaying
scaled/unhinted text.

Did you read the tutorial to know how to use the library ??

Regards,

- David



Robert Schelander a écrit :
> 
> After comparing the results with an old freetype1 I'm
> again not really satisfied.
> 
> Rendering of seperate letters is now more or less ok
> with activated bytecode interpreter, but spacing between
> ':' and '.' characters makes still not a good result. Look at
> the link and compare:
> http://members.aon.at/schleppealm/rendertext4.png
> Both examples use the same arial.ttf and a size of 12.
> 
> Is there another option that either everyone except me
> knows or nobody cares?
> 
> Is freetype1 anyway better than freetype2 -  is freetype2 just
> another hack around some patents?
> 
> Thanks to those who have already helped me!
> 
> Robert
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Schelander" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; "Bob
> Friesenhahn" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 3:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freetype] Bad truetype rendering? SOLVED!!
> 
> > Sorry for bothering you!
> > The bytecode interpreter was deactivated (default
> > since freetype 2.0.3 ... maybe a patent issue)
> >
> > Now get best results after activating and rebuild!
> > ... wondering that not more people complained about the bad default
> > results... but maybe everyone except me knew that it is necessary to
> change
> > this default ? :)
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Robert Schelander
> > To: address@hidden ; address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:50 PM
> > Subject: [Freetype] Bad truetype rendering?
> >
> >
> > Is someone able to tell me why freetype2 performs that
> > bad in this case? (newest versions)
> >
> > Can someone reproduce this:
> >
> > http://members.aon.at/schleppealm/rendertext3.png
> > Look at the runlenght of the characters and the spaces
> > in between. The results of the upper one are really bad.
> > I don't know what's wrong, but that can't be normal.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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