On 2012-10-16 9:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > (Aside: In a way, it's rather sad how much engineering effort is put > into compressing TrueType hints, when the reason for sending TrueType > hints over the wire is that Microsoft's font rasterizer's are so > backwards that they still need hints even though the state of the art > works without human-specified hints. If all browsers on Windows > included the FreeType autohinter, hints could be stripped from fonts > instead of compressing the hints.
I struggle to imagine how the autohinter can compete with human-specified hint instructions. Even http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/ seems to imply that some human interaction is expected. I was under the impression that FreeType autohinter used heuristics based on expectations of the shape of Latin characters. I'd be surprised if that had been extended to all characters/scripts. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/blues.html http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/widths.html _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
