Liberation 2.0 Vs Liberation 1.0 (Need comments)

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 3 December 2012 21:08, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>wrote:

>
> Le Lun 3 décembre 2012 15:26, pravin.d.s at gmail.com a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   As you know Liberation 2.0 is one of the feature of Fedora 18. Recent
> > analysis and comparison with Liberation 1 it is more clear that final
> > output of Liberation 2.0 is not as sharp as it was with Liberation 1.0.
> > Though both are from same vendor (Ascender Corporation) hinting bytecodes
> > are different.
>
> As you wrote results are subjective and I can't stand myself windows-like
> font butchering (subpixel hinting, gross glyph distortion). IMHO some
> people are fighting a losing battle in trying to perpetuate bitmap font
> rendering.
>

Yeah, even me feel same now. It looks contradictory to achieve bitmap fonts
rendeirng with outline fonts. It this case better to use bitmap fonts and
lower point size like till 16 where bitmap fonts can give excellent sharp
output.


>
> Every new font is going the Liberation 2 way so I'm not sure at all
> investing in old-style hinting is useful at all. I've seen the very same
> horror cries when Luxy was dumped, and history showed they were a very
> small minority.
>

Agree.
Since Croscore is also from same vendor Ascender, outline is same in fonts.
Still the bytecode is different. I still not understood the reason behind
the change in bytecode data.


>
> It may be best to keep a Liberation1 package somewhere and have old-style
> hinting fans maintain it. But I doubt they'll be able to keep up with
> Unicode changes. And anyway with hi-dpi screens hitting Apple customers
> nows, and Android tablet producers following suit, Liberation1-style
> hinting is going to be irrelevant in a few years. Resources would be
> better expanded in getting our GUI stack to work with hi-dpi before such
> hardware becomes common IMHO.
>

Yeah, this might be reason behind changes in bytecode. Dunno do we need to
wait for future in that case.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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