Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Hm, you don't happen to have comparison shots showing the visual
> difference between the modes?  And should slight/light without the
> define also result in fractional advance widths in ftgrid?

SLIGHT gives fractional advance widths in ftgrid.

> Because on master, ftgrid is still clamping the advance width to the
> grid when hinting is on (Autohinter, TrueType hinter and CFF).

For me it works just fine.  You have to select the right mode with
F5/F6.  For CFF, you have to enforce auto-hinting by pressing `f' to
see non-integer advance widths for SLIGHT.[*]

Attached you can see two images for

  ftgrid -f 7 19.5 LiberationMono-Regular.ttf


     Werner


[*] It's actually a bug that we don't have fractional advance widths
    with the Adobe CFF engine.