[Gs-devel] Brief analysis of wordtst1.pdf / PMingLiU.ttf

[luke at research.canon.com.au]

On  6 Nov, Raph Levien wrote:
>  The culprit is the PMingLiU font, which uses TT instructions (hints) 
>  to affect the shapes of the glyphs, not just tweak them for low-res 
>  rendering. This font is one of the reasons why we'd eventually like to 
>  have a hinted TT renderer for Ghostscript. 

Yes, you're quite right.  We had the same problem with our proprietary
TT renderer, for the same reason, and felt exactly the same way as you.
Unfortunately the font (and a couple of others from DynaLab) are very
big in China.

I vaguely recall our hack was to turn off AA for fonts like this.

You should see what happens to them if you scale non-orthogonally in X
& Y!

luke