From: Robert Roebling (Robert.Roebling@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 04:44:04 EST
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > but I'm not sure it is so much better than
> > FreeType's and that is what Pango uses to
> > create the outlines.
>
> Pango just gets the outline data from FT - it
> doesn't read the hint tables,
I could be wrong once again, but isnt hintint
useful for low resolution on screen, whereas
it doesn't play any noteworthy role in the area
of 600dpi upwards?
Also, isn't hinting simply patented by Apple,
at least in the US and in the UK? I know
people have added "auto-hinting" to FreeType
recently, but that didn't match the real
hinting in quality (unsurprisingly).
Robert
-- Robert Roebling, MD <robert.roebling@medizin.uni-ulm.de>
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