Font rendering in F13

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/1524250/FreeType-Project-Cheers-TrueType-Patent-Expiration

Are we going to have it enabled for Fedora 14?

-Ilyes Gouta

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:30:56PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Depends on the criteria you use. The "with bytecode" version has better
>> kerning, better shapes, better flow, but is blurry (yeah, without
>
> Not just blurry, though -- awkwardly blurry. At screen resolution, in fact,
> I think it's pushing it to even say that the blurriness makes better shapes
> -- there's not enough pixels to make that work. The font has no bytecode, so
> it's not being hinted.
>
>
>> But generally, if font looks bad hinted when using BCI, it's most likely
>> a bug in font, but when BCI is not present we need to fall back to
>> autohinter, not just turn off the hinting.
>
> Absolutely. I'm not opposed to the BCI, just opposed to failing to autohint
> non-bytecoded glyphs when the feature is enabled.
>
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