Re: hinting lost on generating ttf

Quoting Con Kolivas <con@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Oh bummer. What about hinting in opentype format truetype? Is that different
> from plain otf?
The hinting style is determined by whether the splines are expressed in 
TrueType 
or PostScript. Extranious tables (like whether we use 'GPOS' or 'kern') are 
irrelevant.

So if you have quadratic splines you need truetype instructions.
If you have cubic splines you need PostScript hints.

> Hmm I tried endlessly and still I can't seem to generate a ttf font of any 
> sort in Cubic with any hinting saved. Is that expected?
It doesn't make sense. If you have cubic splines they have to be converted to 
quadratic splines to be saved as truetype. Any hints relevant to cubic splines 
become irrelevant in the process.

If you want to fontforge to hint truetype do what I said:
     Convert to quadratic with Font Info
     Select All
     Auto Instr
It won't work very well though.

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