On 3 December 2012 21:08, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, even me feel same now. It looks contradictory to achieve bitmap fonts rendeirng with outline fonts. It this case better to use bitmap fonts and lower point size like till 16 where bitmap fonts can give excellent sharp output.
Agree.
Since Croscore is also from same vendor Ascender, outline is same in fonts. Still the bytecode is different. I still not understood the reason behind the change in bytecode data.
Yeah, this might be reason behind changes in bytecode. Dunno do we need to wait for future in that case.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
Le Lun 3 décembre 2012 15:26, pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> Hi All,As you wrote results are subjective and I can't stand myself windows-like
>
> As you know Liberation 2.0 is one of the feature of Fedora 18. Recent
> analysis and comparison with Liberation 1 it is more clear that final
> output of Liberation 2.0 is not as sharp as it was with Liberation 1.0.
> Though both are from same vendor (Ascender Corporation) hinting bytecodes
> are different.
font butchering (subpixel hinting, gross glyph distortion). IMHO some
people are fighting a losing battle in trying to perpetuate bitmap font
rendering.
Yeah, even me feel same now. It looks contradictory to achieve bitmap fonts rendeirng with outline fonts. It this case better to use bitmap fonts and lower point size like till 16 where bitmap fonts can give excellent sharp output.
Every new font is going the Liberation 2 way so I'm not sure at all
investing in old-style hinting is useful at all. I've seen the very same
horror cries when Luxy was dumped, and history showed they were a very
small minority.
Agree.
Since Croscore is also from same vendor Ascender, outline is same in fonts. Still the bytecode is different. I still not understood the reason behind the change in bytecode data.
It may be best to keep a Liberation1 package somewhere and have old-style
hinting fans maintain it. But I doubt they'll be able to keep up with
Unicode changes. And anyway with hi-dpi screens hitting Apple customers
nows, and Android tablet producers following suit, Liberation1-style
hinting is going to be irrelevant in a few years. Resources would be
better expanded in getting our GUI stack to work with hi-dpi before such
hardware becomes common IMHO.
Yeah, this might be reason behind changes in bytecode. Dunno do we need to wait for future in that case.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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