Re: native hinting

[David Turner]

Hi Francesco,

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm going to integrate the Freetype2 rasterizer in Ghostscript
> graphics library.
> 
Congratulations :-)

> I'm also contemplating to replace all the Ghostscript Type1 font
> interpreter by the Freetype2 module type1z.  Actually, the Type1
> interpreter uses the autohinter in order to compute hinting (am I
> right?).  I remember a mail on this list in which David took the
> decision to come back to the native hinting for Type1 fonts.  I'd like
> to know when this is going to happen, or if I've just missed some
> messages.
> 
You didn't miss any message. I'm just too busy right now to complete
it, but I still intend to rewrite the T1 hinter for FT 2.0. Actually,
the code is near completion now but I'm currently divided among
several important projects and won't be fully available on FreeType
before the end of September :-(

In all cases, I don't think it will have an impact on your code,
unless you intend to use/provide specific hooks in the engine for
a Postscript interpreter ??

Regards,

- David