Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] TrueType regression

[ismail (cartman) donmez]

First thank you for responding!

Quoting Lars Knoll <address@hidden>:

> We are not doing anything really special for freetype fonts. 
> 
> There is however one change we did inside Qt between 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 that 
> affect font rendering, when you're using a 75 dpi display. That fix might 
> lead to slightly smaller fonts, but they are usually a lot better readable.
> 
> The problem was that Qt 3.2.2. requested non integer pixels size from 
> freetype, leading to rather some fonts being rendered rather ugly (at least 
> with my version of freetype, and I was this on some other machines as well).
> 
> This has been fixed in 3.2.3, and the sizes we request from freetype are now
> 
> always integer pixel sizes. 

I use Qt 3.2.2 with 75 pdi.

> What kind of incorrect behaviour? I couldn't find the patch or change you're
> 
> talking about in recent mails to this list.
> 

Smaller fonts actually. Patch is attached now which I sent to Werner too.


> To be honest, I can see that the font got smaller (which could be my change
> to 
> Qt 3.2.3), but I can't see that rendering in itself got worse.

Again I use Qt 3.2.2 and the worseness I talk about it smaller fonts making
fonts look like hinting enabled.


Regards,
/ismail

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