Re: Xft2, can I turn of hinting?

Around 3 o'clock on Apr 18, David Reveman wrote:

> Is there a way to turn of hinting? from 'fonts.conf' or something?

Yes, you can control all of the FreeType rendering parameters.

> To get symbolic fonts like 'Wingdings" to work properly with libXft1 I had to 
> add the line:
> match any family == "wingdings" edit   encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

Xft1 used this "encoding" kludge to permit raw access to the unencoded 
glyphs of the font.  Xft2 provides a separate glyph API instead of this 
kludge, the encoded API provides only Unicode access.

What application did this work in?

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab