RE: [ft-devel] [Patch] Autofit and stem snapping

[Turner, David]

Hi Frédéric,

> Unfortunately, it is not possible to test directly with 
> ftview and older freetype (ftview was not available for 2.1.8 or 2.1.9 and 
> current
> version of ftview is using symbols not available in freetype 
> older than 2.1.10). So, I must rely on old build of GTK applications, which 
> might
> add other layers of complexity and changes in font management
> (fontconfig, pango, xft, whatever :(
> 

ftview and all demo programs were available on previous releases.
You simply need to checkout "ft2demos" from the CVS repository
using the same tags than the one used for the "freetype2" module.

If you're using Make to compile, do something like:

  mkdir test-2.1.8
  cd test-2.1.8
  cvs co -r VER-2-1-8 freetype2
  cvs co -r VER-2-1-8 ft2demos
  cd freetype2
  make setup && make

  cd ../ft2demos
  make


it's also possible to checkout to distinct directory names,
e.g. 'freetype218' and 'ft2demos18', but you'll need to define
the environment variable TOP_DIR to '../freetype218' when
compiling the demo programs.

Note that each "ft2demos" release is synched, and depends, on
the corresponding "freetype2" release.

That's the way I used to test rendering differences.

> Because I'm an idiot ? :)
> 
> [...]
>
> I hope I was clear enough this time :)
>
Yep, it's a regression from 2.1.7, which I didn't test. I'll do that
tonight. However, don't hold your breath, there are probably differences
between 2.1.7 and 2.1.8 in the hinting algorithm that might be considered
improvements for most glyphs, but fail for some others.

More on this later.

Regards,

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

 
> -- 
> Frederic Crozat <address@hidden>
> Mandriva
> 
>