2011/11/28 Santhosh Thottingal <sthottingal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Yes, manual hinting is pain. It takes lots of time.
We need to do it for each character and for each size i.e. 8pt, 10pt, 12pt.
4-5 bugs on liberation fonts hinting is pending from long time, so i need to dig it some time.
Yes, windows was never high priority for lohit, but some people use it for Windows as well though i have not heard anything regarding Lohit Tamil yet.
Yeah, we need Bold font for each script in Lohit upstream. see bug for Devanagari https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648350
But auto bold will not work perfectly, we need some manual intervention by font designer to make it consistent with Regular Lohit fonts.
Definitely image looks better that earlier broken thing. Let me know once you applied it.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
Hi,
I spent some amount of time today on learning about hinting and its
behavior, played with fontforge, compared Lohit Tamil with other Tamil
and Malayalam fonts which is having not so bad rendering in windows.
Autohinting is not giving expected results for Indic fonts, since they
are yet to write algorithms for that-
http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
I checked with Hiran about the possibility of Manual Hinting. He told
me that , that requires advanced skills in typography and he never
seen it anybody done for Indic fonts except a typographers work for
Sinhala.
Yes, manual hinting is pain. It takes lots of time.
We need to do it for each character and for each size i.e. 8pt, 10pt, 12pt.
4-5 bugs on liberation fonts hinting is pending from long time, so i need to dig it some time.
If we are using upstream Lohit, I understand that we cannot get good
results. Lohit family fonts are not well tested for Windows
too(Pravin, Correct me if I am wrong).
Yes, windows was never high priority for lohit, but some people use it for Windows as well though i have not heard anything regarding Lohit Tamil yet.
By studying the behavior of other fonts, I have one solution with me,
I did an Embolden Transformation on font by 25
units(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/Styles.html) and I see that the
hinting problem is disappeared and font is more good for reading. The
font is more dark now.
Yeah, we need Bold font for each script in Lohit upstream. see bug for Devanagari https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648350
But auto bold will not work perfectly, we need some manual intervention by font designer to make it consistent with Regular Lohit fonts.
Srikanth, Pravin, please confirm this by the screenshots attached. let
me know if there is any improvement.
Definitely image looks better that earlier broken thing. Let me know once you applied it.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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