On 07/24/2012 11:35 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
I don't understand this feature at all! Freetype already uses auto-hinting for fonts which do not provide hinting data, in fact that was one of the prerequisites for enabling the bytecode interpreter in Fedora, and I cherry- picked the relevant change from the huge Infinality patchset and got it upstreamed. Forcing auto-hinting for all fonts effectively means disabling the bytecode interpreter by default, which is surely not a good idea.
It also turns every font into a blurry mess. This is not a subjective opinion. Run the listed command on the Feature Page for DejaVu and Liberation fonts (two of the biggest free fonts). With the current free-type environment you have crisp, clean fonts. Enable auto-hinting and every character becomes blurred including a simple exclamation mark that is a single line of pixels.
It is unfortunate FESCo members blindly +1'd this feature without a bit of evidence or thought. Yes, I read the meeting log. It took just three minutes to pass.
Do I need to file a ticket to get this feature revoked? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
