On Monday 16 June 2008 06:26, Mike FABIAN wrote:
Randall R Schulz
さんは書きました: On Monday 16 June 2008 00:43, Mike FABIAN wrote:
Randall R Schulz
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.
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