[ft-devel] Re: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter

[David Turner]

Sergey Tolstov a écrit :

>I just heard that Adobe uses its own rendering engine. It should be true for 
>PDFs at least. Do they provide PDF Software on Unix? Apparently text rendering 
>should be included.
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I believe their font engine is called "CoolType", but that it doesn't
include a bytecode interpreter to hint TrueType fonts.
Regarding their applications, I believe they're capable of using either
the host rendering engine or CoolType, depending
on rendering mode and user preferences.

Moreover, even if CoolType includes a bytecode interpreter, it could be
one from Apple or MS which still exhibits
the rounding bug.

In other words, the fact that Illustrator displays the glyph fine
doesn't mean a lot to us.

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

>Sergey Tolstov  
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Turner [mailto:address@hidden 
>>Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:54 PM
>>To: Sergey Tolstov
>>Subject: Re: [ft] Glyph hinting problem with TT hinter
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>>Sergey Tolstov a écrit :
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>>>Adobe Illustrator 10 draws the glyph fine for that size. I 
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>>suppose they 
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>>>use their own font engine, don't they?
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>>Why would they ?
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>>- David Turner
>>- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
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