Re: [ft] Existence of Autohinter in the Future ?

[Torsten Giebl]

Hello !


> > But with Freetype2 + Autohint, the line with the exact same text is
> > in one font longer, than in the other one.
> >
> > Maybe this is a problem with Liberation Serif itself.
>
> I just can repeat: It's not a `problem' at all.

It is from a web design point of view, sure you can use tables
to arrange things, but when somebody designs webpages
she/he has a design in mind where menuentries have that textsize,
chapter text has that textsize and so on.

> > Are there any fonts that even with Autohinter on, can replace the M$
> > Fonts and have the exact same length on the screen ?
>
> By design, the answer is no.

It is a good thing that now everbody can use BCI and with Freetype2 + BCI i get
exactly what i want and in the future all the distributions will have it 
enabled.


CU