Re: [Devel] Fwd: Bug#179450: libfreetype6: Misaligned font spacing/sizing

[David Turner]

Hi again,

Anthony Fok wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:24:23AM +0100, David Turner wrote:
>
> > Just fixed this in the CVS, please test before RC2 :-)
>
>
> I just tested it.  Please see:
>
>    http://anthony.homelinux.net/~foka/freetype/freetype-2.1.3-9.png
>    http://anthony.homelinux.net/~foka/freetype/freetype-2.1.3-10.png
>
>         - from  http://www.mozilla.org/mozorg.html
>
> The code in the latest CVS has improved, but still not as good as before.
> The "holes" in certain letters (u, n, o, u, d, etc.) are squashed
> in the bold headings.  I wonder why...  Anyhow, the pictures correspond to
> the following versions:
>
>   freetype (2.1.3-10) unstable; urgency=low
>
>     * FreeType 2.1.4rc1 with CVS update as of 2003-02-18.
>
>    -- Anthony Fok <address@hidden>  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:59:12 +0800
>
>   freetype (2.1.3-9) unstable; urgency=low
>
>     * Backed out David Turner's modified bluescale implementation (2.1.3-8)
>       and put back David Chester's original patch (2.1.3-7) until rendering
>       with bytecode interpreter turned on is improved.  (See Bug#179450)
>
>    -- Anthony Fok <address@hidden>  Mon,  3 Feb 2003 03:44:56 +0800
Fixed, this was a rounding error when computing the scale factors in
Set_Char_Sizes of src/truetype/ttdriver.c.

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)