Huw D M Davies wrote:
The idea was to enable antialiasing if either the gasp table was missing or if the gasp table tell us to do so. It seems unlikely that a font designer would have gone to the trouble of adding hinting instructions but not the tiny gasp table. Actually I couldn't find a font without a gasp table to test what Windows does in this situation.
Ah, OK, so the logic was right then. Apologies.