Re: freetype 2.3.6+ has significant improvements in hinting

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:25 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> I've been using a CVS snapshot of freetype 2.3.8 for a few days and I
> have to say I'm impressed by the improvements in hinting, even when
> it's just the auto-hinter. From the Changelog it seem that all the
> hinting improvements occurred in 2.3.6, which is currently in rawhide.
> There was improvement across the board: PS, CFF and TTF, but the CFF
> hinting had significant portions rewritten, which should bode well
> with the strategy to prefer OpenType CFF fonts.
> 
> I think that freetype 2.3.6 (at least) should be pushed to F9 updates
> too, unless you want to list "better hinting" as a feature for F10 :p

No, no, no.  What looks great to you looks ugly to others.  No FreeType
updates.  That's a rule.  "I upgraded to F10 and fonts look ugly" is bad
enough, no need for "I updated my F9 and fonts look ugly".

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