The crisp fonts saga

[Mark Raynsford]

On Fri, 2023-12-15 at 17:55 -0800, John Neffenger wrote:
> 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.

I have, yes. I actually considered properties for each of these, but I
thought it more important to be able to specify them on a node-by-node
basis.

Of course, I could always do both, as with the way font smoothing is
right now (prism.lcdtext and -fx-font-smoothing-type: gray). :)

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