[Mumbles: I really whish gmail defaulted to "reply all"] On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a little addendum, here's a quote from Adobe's Thomas Phinney, a > bit further down that typophile thread: "The professional publishing > market seems to have a strong preference for CFF, even if there is no > technical reality behind that." > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Mailhot >> <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> In practice you can approximate cubic splines by just cutting cubic >>> segments in many quadratic ones, which font editors like fontforge do >>> automatically, and at the sizes text is typically rendered there's no >>> visible difference. >>> >>> But after years of marketing on the subject some users are convinced >>> transformation to quadratic for fonts designed with cubic splines is a >>> quality loss. >> >> Indeed. I was one that believed there would be a difference, but even >> at 512 display size, I don't see a single pixel that differs. >> Screenshots here: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=312489 >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=312491 >> >> On the other hand, CFF and TFF use different hinting mechanisms, and >> there a visible difference at small (10-12) point sizes, even on >> Windows. >> >> On the TTF vs. CFF issue, Adam Twardoch, one of the FontLab's managers >> (don't let this make you think he's all marketingspeak) has some >> insightful comments here: >> http://www.typophile.com/node/16695#comment-99516. My summary of his >> position is that TrueType in in OpenType packaging should genrally be >> prefered to OpenType/CCF as an end-user delivery method, all other >> features being equal. >> >> Unfortunately, on Fedora we also have a more complex hinting issue: >> Apple has a patent on TrueType hinting, so TT hinting is off by >> default (there's a Livna package to enable it). Also, most free fonts >> like Linux Libertine store the manually produced PostScript hinting in >> their sfd file (I checked with Philipp), and the TT hinting is >> generated in FontForge just before the TTF is exported. So my guess is >> that the CFF hinting is likely to be better, since it's hand-made. I >> need to do a few more test on this though... >> > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
