Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-07-23)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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> | Akira TAGOH wrote:
> | > I admit simply enabling force-auto-hinting isn't enough. we
> | > definitely
> | > need to optimize a lot to make it more better.
> | 
> | The FreeType autohinter has been developed for years, leading to
> | what
> | we
> | have now. It is totally unreasonable to expect to be able to
> | "optimize" it
> | in the time frame of a single release.
> | 
> | It should also be quite expected that using the hinting information
> | provided
> | by the fonts will necessarily lead to better hinting than not using
> | it.
> 
> Well, that's true for proprietary fonts, but not necessarily true for
> free fonts. I see FreeType upstream is working on ttfautohint, that
> may implies that there are the case autohinting is better than
> hinting in the font as it tries to remove the existing hinting data
> if any.
> 
> | Those are broken fonts (they probably ship hinting information only
> | for
> | selected glyphs and leave the others entirely unhinted), and we
> | should force
> | autohinting manually for those fonts.
> 
> Yes, I noted that in the contingency plan. it should be a trade-off.
> if we have a lot of _broken_ fonts, then it would be better doing it
> in fontconfig and stop using autohinting in the sane fonts then.

Yep,
that's the reason why I ask you to provide the metrics to have an 
overview of the change (how good/bad it is) and the deadline. No
it's more the question how to implement it, to collect the feedback
from people etc. 

R. 

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