Re: [ft-devel] Rendering issues with xpdf (and other Linux based pdf viewers)

[Derek B. Noonburg]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:17:37 +0200 (CEST)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> People can always run the hinter in paranoid mode, rendering a
> >> glyph without hinting if an error is returned...  
> > 
> > Can you elaborate on this?  How does one run the hinter in paranoid
> > mode?  I'm wondering if it would be possible/useful to do this in
> > Xpdf (or at least provide an option to do it).  
> 
> Use FT_LOAD_PEDANTIC.

Turns out I already had code to retry FT_Load_Glyph with hinting
disabled, so it was trivial to add FT_LOAD_PEDANTIC to the first call.


Thanks!

- Derek