Question about F10 Freetype's autohinter

[Jud Craft]

Ooh, thanks, but I'll pass on compiling my own freetype.  I actually
use non-hinted mostly, so it's a minor point for me.  Just wanted to
check if anyone else thought anything was out of whack -- so perhaps
this is the way it's supposed to be.

However, in the future I'll hop back and post the results here if I
try anything.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> On 04/27/2009 05:17 PM, Jud Craft wrote:
>>
>> Does grayscale full-hinting not work in Fedora's freetype?
>>
>> Switching between full and medium hinting seems to have no effect in
>> F10.  The font rendering does not change.  I am certain I have no
>> bizarre ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf settings.
>
> Nothing that we patch here.  Try with upstream FreeType?
>
> behdad
>
>> Full hinting _does_ work when subpixel-smoothing is used.  But if I
>> recall, the fact that subpixel-smoothing works at all in F10 is due to
>> an oversight by the developers, which will be rolled back in F11.
>>
>> Is full-hinting only available when subpixel-smoothing is on?  I
>> recall that Ubuntu seems to support both full and medium hinting, even
>> in grayscale mode.  (Although the last time I tried it was back around
>> 7.10, so it's highly possible things have changed since then).
>>
>> It is true that Ubuntu also uses the patented bytecode interpreter
>> instead of the autohinter.  However, even if you enable that in Fedora
>> with freetype-freeworld, there still seems to be no distinction
>> between medium/full hinting in Fedora, when using grayscale smoothing.
>>
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