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gftools-fix-unhinted no longer useful? #1114
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There's some chatter about the fact that the addition of a prep table via gftools-fix-unhinted is actually making the rendering worse on FreeType (because then FreeType's own autohinting is turned off). We should review this and consider dropping fix-unhinted.
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RosaWagner commentedon Jul 8, 2025
fix-nonhinting also set the
gasptable to full blur for what I understood, and this is still needed for unhinted VF. So maybe just drop thepreptable thing but not thegasptable thing. Or switch todehintertool directly.vitorsr commentedon Feb 19, 2026
FreeType was patched to disregard such small prep tables.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/202297eb5c88d22be2fe4ce8382cd6f4a8820f37
gasp is required for renderers that follow it (not all).