Re: [ft-devel] Improved Arabic auto-hinting

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 15-08-07 04:16 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>>> Sorry, no.  I've only played around with a single font from Titus, but
>>
>> So, what did you verity at all?
> 
> I've verified that the vertical position for the joining glyphs are
> the same in his font...
> 
>> I can't reproduce any improvements so far.
>> This effect:
>>
>>   https://www.flickr.com/photos/behdad/34769511/
>>
>> still happens in my limited testing.
> 
> ... and apparently this doesn't work as universally as I've hoped.
> Please send me the font privately and tell me how to reproduce this
> image.

With this font:


https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/master/unhinted/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf

and this command-line:

$ hb-view ./NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf نستعلیق --font-size 400 --background
000 --foreground ffffff | display




>>> PS: Have you already found some time to review my FreeType patch
>>>     for named instances support?
>>
>> Will do today as I'm preparing for my talk at GUADEC on Sunday...
> 
> Great!
> 
> 
>     Werner
>