Re: [Freetype] metafont fonts for screen display

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Well, the conversion has been done very carefully, and I think that
> > the results can't be improved further.  It now depends on the quality
> > of the Type 1 rasterizer how well glyphs are displayed at small sizes,
> > since the conversion MF->Type 1 looses information.
> > 
> 
> Oh, there are some gotchas.

I know them well; I've read Kinch's papers on this topic, and I've
seen him giving a talk on that in San Francisco.

> You won't see them unless using the fonts at a large point size.
> One reasons for this is artefacts from tracing high resolution GF
> fonts (that is what Projective Solutions did for Bluesky
> Research/Y&Y).  The problem boils down to the fact that the CM fonts
> are made by stroking elliptical pens along paths.  Some weirds
> things happen where such stroked paths intersect.  Tracing such
> outlines results in these oddities making it into the Bezier curves.

I said that `the results can't be improved further', not `the results
are perfect' :-) If you want exactly the same results, you have even
to implement those oddities.


    Werner