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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: subpixel hinting in 11.0?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:44:09 -0700
- Message-id: <200806160644.09386.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 16 June 2008 06:26, Mike FABIAN wrote:
Yes, I enabled sub-pixel hinting.
I said it was very tedious to get right. At one time on both my 10.0 and
10.3 systems I had to go through a protracted trial-and-error exercise
to get the results that were best for me (my tastes, my equipment, my
application usage pattern, etc.)
I still prefer the results I have now with sub-pixel hinting on.
It is also true that different fonts are hinted differently (as if that
needs to be said) and not all do equally well. That's why choice of
typefaces is also a part of the process of font optimization on any
given system.
When did that appear? At the time, all I was aware of was the page with
instructions on rebuilding FreeType to enable sub-pixel hinting, and
that's what I did.
Randal Schulz
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Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:
On Monday 16 June 2008 00:43, Mike FABIAN wrote:
Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:
But if you don't like subpixel hinting at its best, that's your
prerogative, but I find it vastly superior.
I don’t like it because the colour fringes it creates are very
obvious.
I believe the reason for this is that no gamma correction is done.
Test it with
ftview 20 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSans.ttf
On my 10.3 system, where I've rebuilt the FreeType packages to
enable hinting,
You mean subpixel hinting. Normal hinting and byte code hinting is
always enabled in our freetype2 packages anyway.
Yes, I enabled sub-pixel hinting.
I said it was very tedious to get right. At one time on both my 10.0 and
10.3 systems I had to go through a protracted trial-and-error exercise
to get the results that were best for me (my tastes, my equipment, my
application usage pattern, etc.)
I still prefer the results I have now with sub-pixel hinting on.
It is also true that different fonts are hinted differently (as if that
needs to be said) and not all do equally well. That's why choice of
typefaces is also a part of the process of font optimization on any
given system.
By the way, you don’t need to recompile your freetype2 packages
yourself to get subpixel hinting enabled, just search for freetype2
here
http://software.opensuse.org/search
and use the packages from the M17N repository, for example:
When did that appear? At the time, all I was aware of was the page with
instructions on rebuilding FreeType to enable sub-pixel hinting, and
that's what I did.
...
Randal Schulz
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