On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Infinality <infinality@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, it depends on what you mean by "legacy fonts". If you are talking > about bitmap (non-tt) fonts then those would of course always render jaggy. > Any ttf fonts with (semi-good) instructions should render with subpixel > hinting under Freetype like they would with Windows w/Cleartype. (The goal > is to render them similarly to the MS rasterizer, and potentially even > better!) Right. and I thought it wasn't a bitmap font. > Yes, that might be worth mentioning somewhere. I know that some major > distros like OpenSUSE are planning on using subpixel hinting by default now > that it's in Freetype. Other distros have packages that are available too. > More people will likely be using subpixel hinting now that it's in Freetype, > so having documentation as to "what settings do what" might be good. If you > need me to help you out with that, I'd be more than willing. I do have my > git repo of "fontconfig-infinality" which contains TT fonts that I know work > well with subpixel hinting. Perhaps that could be somehow incorporated into > fontconfig itself, now that subpixel hinting is in Freetype?? Yes, that sounds good to me. any helps are welcome :) > > Thanks, > Erik > > -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
