Hi, http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/1524250/FreeType-Project-Cheers-TrueType-Patent-Expiration Are we going to have it enabled for Fedora 14? -Ilyes Gouta On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:30:56PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: >> Depends on the criteria you use. The "with bytecode" version has better >> kerning, better shapes, better flow, but is blurry (yeah, without > > Not just blurry, though -- awkwardly blurry. At screen resolution, in fact, > I think it's pushing it to even say that the blurriness makes better shapes > -- there's not enough pixels to make that work. The font has no bytecode, so > it's not being hinted. > > >> But generally, if font looks bad hinted when using BCI, it's most likely >> a bug in font, but when BCI is not present we need to fall back to >> autohinter, not just turn off the hinting. > > Absolutely. I'm not opposed to the BCI, just opposed to failing to autohint > non-bytecoded glyphs when the feature is enabled. > > -- > Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> > Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services > Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
