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

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

Doh, wait, you need to render fractionally shifted bitmaps. Well, you
can always shift the hinted outline right before shipping it off to
the rasterizer, no? No need to bother the font engine with this?

2017-05-03 22:14 GMT+02:00 Nikolaus Waxweiler <address@hidden>:
>> Fractional advance widths imply that you do have to send a glyph
>> positioned at a sub-pixel position to the TT engine.  It's something
>> to investigate how to do that...
>
> Huh. Don't the font engines always just see a single glyph at a time,
> where frac. advance widths is just a matter of leaving the phantom
> points alone? Doesn't it fall to the client to deal with the advance
> widths?