The crisp fonts saga

[John Neffenger]

On 12/15/23 2:21 PM, Mark Raynsford wrote:
>    2. Add an -fx-font-hinting CSS attribute that, by default, will be
>       set to false. Setting this value to true will enable hinting
>       using whatever is the default (in other words, not setting
>       FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING).

Have you thought of a 'prism.hinting' system property similar to the 
current 'prism.lcdtext'?

Simply being able to toggle off FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING would, I think, 
result in text rendering on Linux similar to the JDK (vertical-only 
hinting when using FreeType 2.8 or later).

A system property would allow end users to control the hinting, too, 
with the added benefit of being a very simple code change.

John