Guillaume Poirier wrote:
Hi,
Le 27 avr. 07 à 16:25, eugeni a écrit :
Author: eugeni Date: Fri Apr 27 16:25:36 2007 New Revision: 23152
Log: Add -ass-hinting option for setting font hinting method. It is possible to separately configure hinting for scaled and unscaled osd. The default is native hinter for unscaled osd (only vo_gl at this point), no hinting for vf_ass.
I have the greatest difficulties to understand what you meant here by "hinting". I know the word "hint" (like in the sense "I'll give you a hint") and I know the sense of "hinting" as "optimizing" but somehow doubt that this is what you mean here.
Could you explain to me what it means?
Until recently, I had virtually no idea what this not infrequently used term meant in the context of fonts. Last week, I had occasion to read the Wikipedia entry on PostScript, and found enough information on font hinting to give me some clue. By my recent/new understanding, font hinting is a matter of informing some program (whether hardware or software) which parts of a character are important to preserve when scaling up or down so that the character will still look good afterwards. It's along the lines of "hint: you should keep this part, those others aren't as important". (Now, of course, very likely someone who knows better will either correct me or at least expand on the point, and I'll wind up feeling mildly foolish for having posted. Oh well...) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.