Re: Liberation 2.0 Vs Liberation 1.0 (Need comments)
Le Lun 3 décembre 2012 15:26, pravin.d.s(a)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.
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Nicolas Mailhot