Re: hinting lost on generating ttf

Quoting Con Kolivas <con@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> It appears that even opentype truetype (.ttf) files can only be quadratic.
Of course. That's the definition of the truetype font format.
Perhaps you should read the spec.

> Given the above information, it also appears that every time a .ttf font is 
> generated, fontforge is automagically doing a quadratic conversion. Thus no 
> hinting will be preserved.
?Only if you start out with a cubic font.
I have suggested to you several times that you convert the font to quadratic 
within fontforge.

Perhaps you have preferences set to read quadratic fonts in as cubic. This is 
generally a bad idea. I suggest you unset "LoadedFontsAsNew"

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