[Freetype] Re: [Render] PS Type1 vs. TrueType

[Vadim Plessky]

On Friday 13 July 2001 11:10, Francesco Zappa Nardelli wrote:
|   VP> I found that with recent FreeType release, FT 2.0.3, and AA
|   VP> enabled (in XFree86), rendering quality of Type1 fonts is very
|   VP> good.
|
|   Happy to hear this.

:-)
|
|   VP> -there are some Cyrillic fonts available nowdays, and it's
|   VP> possible to hint them for better rendering quality.
|
|   Please, don't forget that native hinting in Type1 fonts is currently
|   ignored by FreeType2 (this will possibly change in future relases).

I hope this will *change* in the future.
Well, I have spent some time manually hinting Type1 fonts, and while I am 
satisfied with font's look in ATM 4.0/Windows, there were some 
glitches in FT2.
In particular, with some Cyrillic letters.
// Besides, Adobe Minion and Miriad (Latin) have some problems rendered with 
FT2.

I was thinking that I did wrong hinting.
Thanks to pinting out that native PS TYpe1 hints are ignored.
When we can expect release with support for native hints?

|
|   The magic you see comes from the autohinter (great work, David).

Yes, quality of autohinter is good. Great work, David!

|
|   Regards,
|   -francesco
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