Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

[vernon adams]

I am also seeing the 'wavy text in ftview', with the Adobe engine + hinting: 
on. By 'wavy text' i assume we are meaning that some stems are not snapping to 
the xheight, baseline or capheight, but +1 or -1 pixel from those lines. 
Kubuntu 13.04 64bit.

I would like to test this further, so i have some questions;
1. I have built+installed freetype after patching cffobjs.c to 'driver-
hinting_engine    = FT_CFF_HINTING_ADOBE;'
Will this 'patched' freetype now force the adobe engine as my OS level engine? 
If not, how can i force the adobe engine at OS level.
2. Can anyone recommend a few CFF fonts with known good ps hints, to use in 
control tests?

thanks

-v

On Friday, May 03, 2013 01:31:48 PM Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > After trying on Fedora 19 64bit, Ubuntu 13.04 64bit with gcc 4.7 and
> > > gcc 4.6 with the same result, I eventually tried Ubuntu 13.04 32 bit
> > > and it seemed normal. Maybe it is a 64-bit issue?
> > 
> > Yes, I think so.  BTW, does `make devel' really works out of the box
> > on your 64bit platform?  I suppose that you have
> > 
> >   UINT_MAX = ULONG_MAX = 2^64 - 1
> > 
> > and if I read the code correctly, FreeType aborts with
> > 
> >   no 32bit type found -- please check your configuration files
> > 
> > under these conditions...
> > 
> > Please send me the output of
> > 
> >   echo '#include <limits.h>' | cpp -dM -E
> 
> Yes, make devel appears to work except for the wavy text.
> 
> Attached is the output of that command.
> 
> Regards