Re: Rendering with xft and hinting

[Hing-Wah Wan <50191914 uxmail cityu edu hk>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:46:54PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Around 23 o'clock on Mar 16, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > Can it read that field in TrueType fonts that tells for which sizes
> > the font is supposed to be rendered antialiased?
> 
> I don't know of such a field, what I do know is that some TrueType files 
> provide bitmaps at several sizes.  In this case, it's not clear that you 
> wnat to disable anti-aliasing at that size, but FreeType will pick the 
> prerendered bitmaps instead of outlines if you turn anti-aliasing off for 
> those sizes.
>
In Xft1 the fonts can't display at font size in where there is embedded
bitmap (I'm using mingliu chinese fonts) ,does it still occur at Xft2?

> I don't currently expose the list of bitmap sizes for scalable fonts; I 
> think I could make this work if it would be useful though.
> 
> Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab
> 
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