Le Lun 3 décembre 2012 15:26, pravin.d.s@gmail.com a écrit :
Hi All,
As you know Liberation 2.0 is one of the feature of Fedora 18. Recent analysis and comparison with Liberation 1 it is more clear that final output of Liberation 2.0 is not as sharp as it was with Liberation 1.0. Though both are from same vendor (Ascender Corporation) hinting bytecodes are different.
As you wrote results are subjective and I can't stand myself windows-like font butchering (subpixel hinting, gross glyph distortion). IMHO some people are fighting a losing battle in trying to perpetuate bitmap font rendering.
Every new font is going the Liberation 2 way so I'm not sure at all investing in old-style hinting is useful at all. I've seen the very same horror cries when Luxy was dumped, and history showed they were a very small minority.
It may be best to keep a Liberation1 package somewhere and have old-style hinting fans maintain it. But I doubt they'll be able to keep up with Unicode changes. And anyway with hi-dpi screens hitting Apple customers nows, and Android tablet producers following suit, Liberation1-style hinting is going to be irrelevant in a few years. Resources would be better expanded in getting our GUI stack to work with hi-dpi before such hardware becomes common IMHO.