From freedesktop-poppler Sat Oct 03 21:24:53 2009 From: Benoit Jacob Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:53 +0000 To: freedesktop-poppler Subject: Re: [poppler] [PATCH] Fix Splash back-end FT_Load_Glyph flags Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-poppler&m=125460509705001 2009/10/3 James Cloos : >>>>>> "Benoit" == Benoit Jacob writes: > > Benoit> It looks different from all I got before. That shows that the > Benoit> "original" version before was actually native hinting. So what > Benoit> really looks broken was native hinting for TeX fonts. > > That freetype's native hinter for type1 and cff fonts is sub-optimal > is a known bug.  There is an open rfe to re-implement it on top of > the autofit module (which replaced the autohint module some time ago). Ah, interesting! > BTW, my personal preference for document text (as opposed to UI text) > is either grayscale and no fitting at all, or sub-pixel with freetype's > default LCD filter and light (aka asymmetric) autofitter, depending on > the font.  I usually end up using the former. > > As such, I support your patch. Thanks; to update you, since we had a parallel thread on the Okular mailing list, Albert has agreed to make hinting a GUI option that the user can configure, defaulting to no-hinting. So I suppose that the actual patch that will be applied to poppler, will rather be about adding a hook to let the app (that uses poppler) control that. Benoit _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list poppler@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler