I've been using a CVS snapshot of freetype 2.3.8 for a few days and I have to say I'm impressed by the improvements in hinting, even when it's just the auto-hinter. From the Changelog it seem that all the hinting improvements occurred in 2.3.6, which is currently in rawhide. There was improvement across the board: PS, CFF and TTF, but the CFF hinting had significant portions rewritten, which should bode well with the strategy to prefer OpenType CFF fonts.
I think that freetype 2.3.6 (at least) should be pushed to F9 updates too, unless you want to list "better hinting" as a feature for F10 :p
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:25 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
I've been using a CVS snapshot of freetype 2.3.8 for a few days and I have to say I'm impressed by the improvements in hinting, even when it's just the auto-hinter. From the Changelog it seem that all the hinting improvements occurred in 2.3.6, which is currently in rawhide. There was improvement across the board: PS, CFF and TTF, but the CFF hinting had significant portions rewritten, which should bode well with the strategy to prefer OpenType CFF fonts.
I think that freetype 2.3.6 (at least) should be pushed to F9 updates too, unless you want to list "better hinting" as a feature for F10 :p
No, no, no. What looks great to you looks ugly to others. No FreeType updates. That's a rule. "I upgraded to F10 and fonts look ugly" is bad enough, no need for "I updated my F9 and fonts look ugly".
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