Fwd: [Freefont-bugs] What's next?

[Primoz PETERLIN]

Hi,

First of all, I would like to express my delight in seeing Steve successfully bringing the project back to life.

2008/2/13, Steve White <address@hidden>:

[...]
Autohinting doesn't appear to be the problem.  It is the hand-hinted
glyphs that
looked funny.  I was wondering how people chose these particular hints.

If you are talking about PostScript hinting (as opposed to TrueType instructions), I don't think this is an issue worth worrying about. Unless there were some drastic changes in the way George Williams' FontForge behaves, I don't believe that PostScript hints are used anywhere at all. Their only use I can envision is if someone would want to export a part of a font file as a Type 1 font.

As of their origin -- some of them were probably indeed inherited, and some of them may have been created by some earlier version of FontForge, when it was doing the hinting job less well.

All the best,
Primož