On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:08 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Also does this mean we'll never use font hints even on well-hinted > fonts ? The hinting bytecode interpreter is patent encumbered, and has never ever been available in stock Fedora or Red Hat. The autohinter has been in use the whole time. Besides, IMHO the autohinter looks way better than the real hinter on most fonts. Years ago I tried rebuilding the freetype package with the real hinter enabled. At typical screen sizes, the real hinter completely changes the shape of the font, (And it did match the way windows/mac rendered fonts) which was pretty much necessary to look good in the days before subpixel anti-aliasing, but now that we're doing such, I find the autohinter does a far better job of hinting the font to look good with antialiasing, it seems to better preserve the font's overall "character" so that smaller point sizes match up much better with larger sizes. I don't miss the "real hinter" at all.
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