Re: [ft-devel] Problem with ligatures and strikes

[Michal Nowakowski]

W dniu 10.06.2010 08:49, Werner LEMBERG pisze:
> > The Calibri font shipped in Windows XP has bitmap strikes for a
> > variety of sizes, but from what I understand, no bitmap glyphs for
> > many ligature combination it defines in its GSUB table, for example,
> > for 'tt', 'ft', 'ffi' among others.  That results in very ugly
> > rendering (see attached).
> >
> > My question is, how does Windows deal with this?
>
> I'm interested in an answer too.  Anyone here who has some insight?

Attached are some screenshots to show how my XP SP3 renders this string
Done with Firefox, with ligatures enabled- at least it looks so;
Notepad schows them clearly disjoined at 18 pt.

Regards,
Michał Nowakowski

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