Freetype changes

Florian Hackenberger f.hackenberger at chello.at
Thu Sep 20 12:59:30 BST 2007


On Thursday 20 September 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> However, the rendering quality in some other situations did seem to
> improve slightly. I'm uncomfortable with introducing this change this
> close to beta without a full discussion of the pros and cons of the
> change, and ideally I suspect we ought to defer it to post-UDS where we
> can get more feedback from experts in this field. Thoughts?
I can recommend [1] as a read. It introduces the reader to the concept of 
sub-pixel hinting quite well.

Cheers,
	Florian

[1] http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html

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