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Texttool: Force AutoHinter

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Texttool: Force AutoHinter Carol Spears 05 Feb 20:17
  Texttool: Force AutoHinter Sven Neumann 05 Feb 21:01
Carol Spears
2004-02-05 20:17:59 UTC (about 20 years ago)

Texttool: Force AutoHinter

question:

what is forced auto-hinting in the texttool, and how can you tell if it works or not?

carol

Sven Neumann
2004-02-05 21:01:41 UTC (about 20 years ago)

Texttool: Force AutoHinter

Hi Carol,

Carol Spears writes:

what is forced auto-hinting in the texttool, and how can you tell if it works or not?

It forces the autohinter to be used even though the font provides native hints:

http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/ft2faq.html#autohint

Of course it makes a difference only if the autohinter wasn't used anyway and the differences may be very subtle. A few people asked for this option though.

Sven