> > I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK > in a few sizes and not > so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinting > is not perfect yet > (either that, or this is a limitation of libttf's > handling of the hinting > ... hmm, as an aside, I wonder why gfontview uses > libttf2 (Freetype 1) and > not libfreetype6 (Freetype 2)?
Making a perfectly hinted font is very, very diffecult (the guy who made Times New Roman has said he spent 2+ years on the hinting alone). I chose to embed bitmaps for all the smaller sizes (no small chore). Is it possible that gfontview can't handle truetype embedded bitmaps? > > > Or do you > > mean it looks flawless onscreen in windows? > > Dustin will have to answer that. > yes, I am speaking of how it looks in windows -- unfortunately I have not tested it in Linux.. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
