Best font rendering engine

[Fabio Dell'Aria]

Tobias Wolf wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 09.09.2006, 14:31 +0100 schrieb Alex Jones:
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>> Hi Johan + list
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>> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 15:06 +0300, Johan Kiviniemi wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:53:34PM +0200, Fabio Dell'Aria wrote:
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>>>> Why did not add in the Edgy official tree the "David Turner" font
>>>> patch, able to big increase the font rendering?
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>>>> Screenshot:
>>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-05/pngFUwZNkywkJ.png 
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>>> In that screenshot, the fonts are rendered without hinting, and thus
>>> they are blurry. I'd hate to use that.
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>> This is simply incorrect, the fonts ARE hinted, they have just had a
>> more effective filter applied. It's called FIR and you can read more
>> about it here: <http://www.grc.com/ct/cleartype.htm>
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> In both screenshots FreeType’s ‘light hinting’ mode is used.
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>> As a side-note, unhinted fonts look MUCH nicer than hinted fonts IMO. It
>> is always about taste. As it happens, Mac OS X uses unhinted fonts -
>> they retain their perceived shape perfectly which is more important to
>> some people than the mythical loss in readability.
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> People have been experimenting with filtering when hinting is completely
> off on the freetype-devel list. I think without any hinting it will be
> hard to achieve faithful letter outlines that do not excessively bleed
> into gray values – the pixel grid is simply too low-res. MS typography
> began to use hinting instructions in fonts that are specifically built
> for later subpixel filtering. In contrast to OSX this is done with the
> maxim “optimize shape contrast” while keeping some faithful
> representation of the original outline. The superhinted appearance that
> was very popular in the past is being (or has been) phased out on nearly
> all major platforms.
> One advice would be to deactivate the byte-code interpreter and switch
> to the UNPATENTED_HINTING (a.k.a the Autohinter) mode; it is less
> aggressive.
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Can you explain to me how is possible obtain this, please?

--
Fabio.
> --Tobias
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>>> Regards,
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Alex Jones <alex at weej.com>
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Cordialmente...

Fabio Dell'Aria.