Re: [Freefont-bugs] Poor rendering in Windows

[Denis Jacquerye]

On 15/02/2008, Steve White <address@hidden> wrote:
> One of the most important outstanding bugs is the very old
>     bug #5553: Characters deformed in Windows apps
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?5553
>
>  (Please, refrain from emotional and jingoistic reactions.)
>
>  FreeFont TrueType fonts look just awful in Windows applications:  I
>  tried several.
>  They look like badly scaled bitmaps.
>  I intend to address this issue for the next release.
>
>  Does anybody know why this happens, and what can be done about it?
>  Is it hinting?  Some switch in the font info I don't know about?
>

It is due to the lack of hinting indeed.

Cheers,
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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye