Fix: text hint option look inactive when it is working. #112737

Gilberto Rodrigues · 2023-09-22T19:00:52+02:00

Gilberto Rodrigues commented

2023-09-22 19:00:52 +02:00

text hint option look inactive when it is working.
see #112736

text hint option look inactive when it is working. see https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112736

Gilberto Rodrigues added 1 commit 2023-09-22 19:01:06 +02:00

325b970058 fix option look inactive when it is working

Gilberto Rodrigues requested review from Harley Acheson 2023-09-22 19:01:16 +02:00

Harley Acheson commented

2023-09-23 01:39:35 +02:00

I am soooo glad you noticed this.

But the difference in output you see when changing the "hinting" options when "Anti-aliasing" is turned off is not due to the hinting. You'll notice that there wouldn't be difference between selecting "Slight" or "Full".

Unintuitively, the non-antialiased mode is actually a hinting type. We could actually remove that checkmark and add a new item to the "Hinting" list for it. It just wouldn't make much sense to most users that way. The hinting in this mode strongly moves glyph features to align to the pixel grid as best as possible. It is still mostly ugly, but that is the idea.

The difference you see when in that mode and change hinting to Slight or Full is really just the new Subpixel AA. That feature can only make the mono hinting mode worse and never better. I just didn't notice this combination because I didn't think of changing the hinting dropdown while it was greyed out.

Thanks again for noticing this issue. I really do appreciate it. I fixed it in #112759 by not doing subpixel AA in this mode.

I am soooo glad you noticed this. But the difference in output you see when changing the "hinting" options when "Anti-aliasing" is turned off is not due to the hinting. You'll notice that there wouldn't be difference between selecting "Slight" or "Full". Unintuitively, the non-antialiased mode is actually a hinting type. We could actually remove that checkmark and add a new item to the "Hinting" list for it. It just wouldn't make much sense to most users that way. The hinting in this mode **strongly** moves glyph features to align to the pixel grid as best as possible. It is still mostly ugly, but that is the idea. The difference you see when in that mode and change hinting to Slight or Full is really just the new Subpixel AA. That feature can only make the mono hinting mode worse and never better. I just didn't notice this combination because I didn't think of changing the hinting dropdown while it was greyed out. Thanks again for noticing this issue. I really do appreciate it. I fixed it in #112759 by not doing subpixel AA in this mode.

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Harley Acheson closed this pull request

2023-09-23 01:39:37 +02:00

Gilberto Rodrigues deleted branch temp-hintpref

2023-09-25 11:20:30 +02:00

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Fix: text hint option look inactive when it is working. #112737

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