From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 10:36:09 EST
At 10:44 AM +0100 1/27/03, Robert Roebling wrote:
>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?
It is most useful for lower resolution devices when dealing
with Roman text, but for Asian glyphs (and some other languages)
hinting also becomes useful on high resolutions as well.
>Also, isn't hinting simply patented by Apple,
>at least in the US and in the UK?
No hinting in general - just one form of it.
>I know people have added "auto-hinting" to FreeType
>recently, but that didn't match the real
>hinting in quality (unsurprisingly).
>
I don't know what "real hinting" is, but I think you'll find
the current versions of FreeType2 to generate equal or better quality
glyphs to what is found on commercial systems.
Leonard
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