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Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter
From: |
Vadim Plessky |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:23:48 +0400 |
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On Friday 05 July 2002 5:13 am, David Turner wrote:
| - finally, I do quantize the stem widths within the new
| auto-hinter, as well as strengthen "weak" stems to at
| least one pixel wide. This has the effect of higher
| contrast with about the same level of detail than
| your technique.
|
| In all cases, more experimentation is needed and will be
| performed. It seems that we might be able to completely
| forget about this patent non-sense in a relatively short
| time.. Good, really good :-) !!
David,
Sorry for delayed comments.
IMO, FreeType (with AA enabled) has real advantage [over MS TT rasterizer] of
handling *light* fonts (I was experimenting mostly with Pragmatica Light, and
results are really good!)
You want to _strengthen "weak" stems to at least one pixel width_.
This is good. But, will this *one pixel* be gray (more close to white, like
rgb(238,238,238)) or *black* (close to rgb(0,0,0))?
For example, I see rendering artefacts for Latin 's' and 'S' glyphs, even for
SanSerif fonts (like Arial/Pragmatica) at normal weights (not Light). And in
this case, stem's width is 1px or wider, but it looks too light, sometimes
with visual impression that character was *splitted* into two parts.
Best Regards,
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- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, (continued)
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Keith Packard, 2002/07/09
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Vadim Plessky, 2002/07/15
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Owen Taylor, 2002/07/05
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Owen Taylor, 2002/07/05
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, David Turner, 2002/07/07
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Owen Taylor, 2002/07/07
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, David Turner, 2002/07/10
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Owen Taylor, 2002/07/10
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- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Owen Taylor, 2002/07/10
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/07/06
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter,
Vadim Plessky <=
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, George Williams, 2002/07/16
- Re: [Devel] Adding options to the PS Hinter, Vadim Plessky, 2002/07/19