Re: [ft] Bytecode hinter producing bad results, seems to be a regression

[Stuart Longland]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 08:07:03AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >> The trickyness is that you are trying to separate hinting
> >> from rasterizing.  As explained already, the TrueType
> >> bytecode interpreter and the rasterizer do interact.  It's
> >> not intended to be handled separately.
> > 
> > I went through the trouble of tweaking my 3rd party library to
> > support rendering with FreeType...and the result was identical to
> > when I extract the outlines with FreeType and render things myself!
> > So I guess my font sucks?  Where are the good fonts?
> 
> You might look at the original Helvetica font from Adobe, or its
> freely available clone from URW, `Nimbus Sans', which comes with
> Ghostscript.  Those fonts use PS hinting technology, not TrueType.

How do fonts such as the Linux Libertine family stack up in this regard?
Would that be an ideal TrueType font for comparison, or are there better
examples?

Regards,
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