Re: [ft-devel] disappointing results with autohinting

[David Turner]

Hi Graham,

you can try to use the FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO flag to force monochrome-specific
auto-hinting (FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME only forces monochrome rendering when 
FT_LOAD_RENDER
is also used, can't change this for backwards compatibility reasons...)

however, I don't think the result should be significantly better. I've more or 
less
given up on producing really nice monochrome output, especially for serif fonts.

the alternative would be to used embedded bitmaps, for example ones you would 
generate
with the bytecode interpreter...

Hope this helps,

- David

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:44:52 +0100, "Graham Asher" <address@hidden> said:
> Dear FreeTypers,
> 
> I am getting very bad results autohinting Times New Roman (times.ttf from
> Microsoft): see the attached image. I have turned off the TrueType
> bytecode
> interpreter, and verified by single-stepping that the autohinter is being
> used.
> 
> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong are very welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Graham Asher
>