Partially hinted fonts

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 31 March 2011 10:34, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that several of the non-Latin fonts we ship in Fedora
> contain
> partial hinting information, usually not covering (or covering only very
> poorly) the intended target alphabet(s) of the fonts.
>
> In particular, several of our CJK fonts include hinting information only
> for
> Latin characters, or otherwise covering few to no CJK ideographs.
>
> This is a problem because the version of Freetype in Fedora 15 will see
> that
> there is some hinting bytecode and try to use the bytecode interpreter
> rather than the autohinter on the entire font. If the relevant characters
> are then not actually hinted, those characters will be entirely unhinted,
> looking blurry.
>
>
Yeah, we are facing this problem in indic locales,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682667
I am working on lohit upstream to remove hinting instructions. thanks for
this important information.

Regards,
Pravin S
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