Re: [Freetype] what do you test against?

[Vadim Plessky]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 9:13 am, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
|  This is not a rhetorical question. Fonts are of different qualities.
|  What do _YOU_ optimizer for? I think there must be a set of good ones to
| test the screen look against. What are they? Would someone name them
|  specifically with the versions given?

Hello Alexei!

Before giving to you any recommendation, please answer:

* are you going to use/test TrueType (TT) or PostScript Type1 fonts?
* if you are using TT - are you going to enable Bytecode Interpreter?
* are you going to use Anti-Aliasing at font sizes 7pt-13pt?
 (answer really depends on this)

As about Palatino Linotype - I guess posting was from me.
But you may notice that I posted twice, in deifferent time frame.
In fact, I founq quality of rendering for Linotype Palatino TTF, and Verdana 
TTF, close to PERFECT, with FT 2.0.3 and TT bytecode interpreter enabled, 
AA-enabled.

On th eother hand, PS auto-hinter provides quite bad results for fonts with 
Serifs. Therefor, both Linotype Palatino (TTF) and TNR (TTF) are rendered 
bad, as I have TT Bytecode interpreter *disabled* by default.
FreeType tries to auto-hint those fonts, but quality is not good. So, you get 
bad rendering.

Hope this helps a little bit, feel fre to ask!..
 
|
|  On this list I have already encountered a lame discarding of a bug
|  report on the poor quality of Times New Roman from Monotype.
|  Others blamed Palatino Linotype on a different occasion. This
|  is fine as long as we have a perfect, approved and working set of fonts.
|  I'm yet to find these, or am I blind? .. no matter how complex the
| description of the rules is - let us know.
|
|  Personally, I barely see diagonal stems in Courier New (bits enabled). So,
|  which monospace is god-sent then?
|
|  Once again, please name the fonts you like, use, and optimize for. Please
| dont forget to give versions and character sets you test.
|
|  Merci,
|  Alexei
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