Bug 117

Summary:	Support a "degree of hinting" pattern element
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	2_1
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	118
Attachments:	Patch adding FC_HINT_STYLE key

Description Owen Taylor 2003-09-23 12:32:41 UTC

The tradeoff between 

 - Faithfullness to original letter shapes
 - Degree of contrast

Is a matter of user preference, also dependent on font shapes,
resolution, and quality of hinting available. It should be
possible to change through fontconfig.

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-09-23 12:36:55 UTC

Created attachment 59 [details] [review]
Patch adding FC_HINT_STYLE key

This is what we've been using in Red Hat for the last year or so...
(If you do something different, I'd appreciate it if you use a 
different name for the key, since that will make migration problems
less.

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2003-09-23 13:28:13 UTC

2003-09-23  Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
 
        * fontconfig/fontconfig.h  src/fcdefault.c (FcDefaultSubstitute)
        src/fcname.c: Add a FC_HINT_STYLE key for patterns, with
        possible values HINT_NONE/HINT_SLIGHT/HINT_MEDIUM/HINT_FULL.
        (Bug #117)

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