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List:       freedesktop-poppler
Subject:    Re: [poppler] [PATCH] Fix Splash back-end FT_Load_Glyph flags
From:       Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-10-02 14:42:07
Message-ID: d9f848520910020742w313f2ed1v3e25940b809fc4c7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ah, OK.

Well, all I can say is that the results looked identical to the
results with auto-hinting, see screenshots in 1st thread.

I hope that we agree that they are bad!

Benoit

2009/10/2 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>:
>>>>>> "Benoit" == Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Benoit> The results are terrible: it is as if FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT has no
> Benoit> effect at all. The results that I get are exactly the same as
> Benoit> with hinted text, and i'm sure that I haven't enabled the
> Benoit> bytecode interpreter so this can't be native hinting (and anyway
> Benoit> this is the default TeX font which I'm pretty sure is Type 1,
> Benoit> not TrueType) so the only possible conclusion is that
> Benoit> FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT has no effect and auto-hinting is still
> Benoit> being used.
>
> The Type1/CFF native hinting is unrelated to the GLYF bytecode
> interpreter.  You did get native hinting of your t1 fonts, given
> your description.
>
> -JimC
> --
> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
>
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