[ft-devel] rendering differences between 2.2.x, 2.3.x and CVS

[Pierre]

Hi,

While trying to have a small example to reproduce a libGD recent bug
report (http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=76), I modified one
of the manual example to see how looks the default rendering across
the following versions: 2.2.1, 2.2.1-Ubuntu Feisty, 2.3.4 and CVS.

Here is the result of the tests (modified source there too), using the
Verdana font (MS Core fonts):

http://pierre.libgd.org/ft2/comparison.html

Other examples (using libgd) are visible in the bug report directly.

As reported in the gd bug, the differences are important. Some may be
related to the default mode (autohinting mode, etc.). But what
surprised me in the differences regarding the size (height) of the
results.

I'm wondering what's wrong or if there is anything to do to
hide/minimize these differences.

Any advices or suggestions are more than welcome.

Regards,
--Pierre