Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 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.

Yep.  This is a 64bit issue; I'm already investigating.

> 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?

Yes.


    Werner