Re: [ft] Font rendering quality

[Tudor, Dacian]

Hi Werner,

thanks for the info. I checked the gasp table using Raph Levien's Gasp Tool. 
Perhaps there are better tools for it, maybe you can recommend a better one.

Unfortunately I am not so familiar with font internals and I don't know if the 
reported info is relevant for my problem. Could you please have a look into it 
and let me know you opinion?

I can try subpixel hinting as suggested. Is it sufficient to use version 2.5.0 
and with FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING enabled?

Regards,
Dacian

PS. Linz..small world ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Werner LEMBERG
Sent: Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2013 22:07
To: Tudor, Dacian
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [ft] Font rendering quality


Hello Tudor!


> We are using FreeType 2.4.10 to render text in a project and we have a
> blurry output with the attached font.  Font size is 16, but the
> problem is present with any other font size.

In such cases you should always look into the `gasp' table which tells you how 
to render the font: For ppem sizes 9-27, the font should be rendered in B/W 
mode.

With the current FreeType version, and with subpixel hinting enabled, you will 
get a much better result for AA rendering, BTW.


    Werner


PS: Ich wohne auch in Linz :-)

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