Hi Roberto, > My experience has always been that the autohinter is way better than > all the bci stuff. Mine tells a different story, especially when dealing with standard' fonts such as Arial, Tahoma and even Courier New. What I'd like to see is a true, fully featured font rendering experience on the Linux desktop. Sadly, this goes through the bci thing, a method for custom glyph control/reconstruction, which patents expired recently. -Ilyes Gouta On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: >> Hey, >> >> early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our >> freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall. >> Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit >> from this, and actually look worse with the bci. The reason for that is >> that without the bci, freetype uses its autohinter on all fonts, but >> with the bci turned on, it only applies hints to fonts which have them, >> and leaves other fonts alone. >> >> Behdad investigated the situation, and we have a plan to fix this, but >> doing it properly requires enhancements in multiple places (freetype, >> fontconfig, pango), and will not be ready in time for F13. > > My experience has always been that the autohinter is way better than > all the bci stuff. > > I understand that the target of these modifications is to have the bci > where available and the autohinter where bci info is missing. > > Will there be an option to say "always use the autohinter?"? > If not, I would miss it badly. > > -- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
