----- Original Message ----- > ----- 元のメッセージ ----- > | Akira TAGOH wrote: > | > I admit simply enabling force-auto-hinting isn't enough. we > | > definitely > | > need to optimize a lot to make it more better. > | > | The FreeType autohinter has been developed for years, leading to > | what > | we > | have now. It is totally unreasonable to expect to be able to > | "optimize" it > | in the time frame of a single release. > | > | It should also be quite expected that using the hinting information > | provided > | by the fonts will necessarily lead to better hinting than not using > | it. > > Well, that's true for proprietary fonts, but not necessarily true for > free fonts. I see FreeType upstream is working on ttfautohint, that > may implies that there are the case autohinting is better than > hinting in the font as it tries to remove the existing hinting data > if any. > > | Those are broken fonts (they probably ship hinting information only > | for > | selected glyphs and leave the others entirely unhinted), and we > | should force > | autohinting manually for those fonts. > > Yes, I noted that in the contingency plan. it should be a trade-off. > if we have a lot of _broken_ fonts, then it would be better doing it > in fontconfig and stop using autohinting in the sane fonts then. Yep, that's the reason why I ask you to provide the metrics to have an overview of the change (how good/bad it is) and the deadline. No it's more the question how to implement it, to collect the feedback from people etc. R. > -- > Akira TAGOH > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
