[Pkg-fonts-devel] Looking for a sponsor for my fonts-hack package

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Paride Legovini (2015-09-04 10:31:10)
> On 2015-09-04 00:49, Norbert Preining wrote:
>>> Check the two attached files, it's apparent that otf version gives a 
>>> result that is by far worse. Check especially the bold 'm' letter, 
>>> the dollar symbol and the dot inside of the '0' character.
>> 
>> Hi everyone. Just one code point: I have installed the OTF fonts 
>> (outside packaging) and have them running in roxterm, and I don't see 
>> the artefacts that are indeed clearly visible in the screenshots.
>
> I will investigate and report back, but I'm quite sure that I didn't 
> change anything relevant in my font configuration.
>
> I have a couple of questions that might help.
>
> Do the ttf/otf fonts look identical to you, or you don't get the 
> artifacts but the fonts do differ?

I get similar differences as you when I use the font with sakura.  

(For console use I prefer fast rendering and low memory footprint, so 
use xfonts-terminus with rxvt-unicode-lite).

Attached are ghostscript renderings of the two main fonts using this 
command:

printf '%%!PS\n(/usr/share/ghostscript/9.16/lib/prfont.ps) run\n/Hack DoFont\n' | gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Hack.pdf -

I cannot see any difference (command is relatively noisy and I checked 
that it loaded the correct font file).

A quick sample in XeLaTeX also didn't show differences.


> Are you using native hinting or autohinting?

I believe the hinters are relevant for screen rendering only.


I still recommend to package both Truetype and Opentype fonts - and also 
web fonts, since upstream provides those as well.


 - Jonas

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