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, I cannot replicate the symptoms you describe. I don't have 11.0 installed anywhere to compare. I am also dubious about this tool. When it says hinting is active, the font (DejaVuSans, i.e.) looks like a naively rendered bitmap with stair-stepping quite obvious. When it says hinting is off, I see smoothing. Changing the gamma likewise does not produce any color fringing. The default view (the way the application starts up from the command you gave) is attached. But under no combination of the 'a' and the 'h' toggles do I see color fringing of any sort or degree.
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Randall Schulz