capital H indicating hinted glyph
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capital H indicating hinted glyph
In previous versions of FontCreator the originally hinted glyphs were marked with a capital H in het upper left corner, while edited glyphs lost their hints and accordingly their marking. In the most recent version edited glyphs still don't show the H marker, though they are hinted (automatically) by the program. Is this the normal behaviour? Does the H mean that the original hinting is preserved when a font is exported?
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
Wasn't this answered in your previous thread?
All hinting is replaced on exporting the font, and autohinting is added.
All hinting is replaced on exporting the font, and autohinting is added.
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
Yes, but I wonder why the marking of glyphs is inconsistent, as *all* glyphs receive (auto)hints. This is not reflected by the presence or absence of the H marker.
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
On exporting a font with auto hinting, the newly generated font file will contain hinting, however the actual font project is not affected.
Note: we've released a new version today which also allows you to export while preserving the original hinting. Of course hinting will be removed for any modified glyph(s).
Note: we've released a new version today which also allows you to export while preserving the original hinting. Of course hinting will be removed for any modified glyph(s).
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
This is a *major* improvement, in my view, unless the option to keep the original hinting implies that modified glyphs will NOT be autohinted.
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
Unfortunatley a hybrid solution is not available yet.
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
So I suppose the option 'No hinting' removes all existing hints?
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
That is correct.
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Re: capital H indicating hinted glyph
I like the *yet*Erwin Denissen wrote:Unfortunatley a hybrid solution is not available yet.