Re: New Font file release

["Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya" <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

Mete,
When you said 20, is it 20 pt or 20 pixel? Anyway, as I mentioned
before, the font is optimised for screen reading at 12 and 16 pt size,
or 16 and 21 pixel respectively. So, at these 2 sizes, even though it
is not smooth, the looks should be good. At other sizes, probably not.
Did you test at these sizes?

You mentioned you enable cleartype. Are you using LCD screen? This is
because cleartype is meant for LCD. If not, just use standard method
for font smoothing. If you are using LCD, there is a tool from
Microsoft to tweak cleartype setting. You need to download this
tool.Someone mentioned to me that there are 6 setting you can choose
from.

If you are saying that below 20pt it does not look smooth, I think
there must be a setting somewhere to rectify this. There is an
instruction inside the font itself to tell the rasterizer at which
size it should smothen the font, and this varies from font to font. I
believe mine was set at 17pt. However, Linux platfrom might ignore
this instruction (for a good reason).

Regards.

On 2/22/06, Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Hello Meor,
>
> Thanks for the clarifications regarding the Mushaf Medinah font.
>
> Yup, my DPI setting is 96. When I print Arabic text using this font from the printer it comes out very nice and smooth. But on my screen it is not. I do have the ClearType setting on.
>
> Hmm.. I just noticed that the same is true for all Arabic fonts on my computer. When I increase the font size to about 20 Arabic text looks clear both with your font and other Arabic fonts. But font sizes smaller than about 20 produce unsmooth letters. Anyways, it is probably not a problem specifically with your font but rather a problem viewing Arabic text in less than 20 size on my system (although Arabic text looks fine in PDF documents even if it is smaller).
>
> I fully support your way of not encoding the tatweel in the text. Tatweel codepoint should not be encoded in the raw text those cases. The font itself should extend the baseline as necessary.
>
> Thank you,
> Mete
>