Re: [ft-devel] Time for a new FreeType release

[Derek B. Noonburg]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 15:41:19 +0100
Chris Liddell <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 03/04/18 15:12, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
> >>>> We're currently experiencing a problem with FreeType 2.9 in
> >>>> conjunction with Ghostscript.  Some TrueType glyphs are
> >>>> rendering as if the hinting is broken, or points are being
> >>>> moved/dropped.  
> >>
> >> Well, the good news is that the corrupted glyph rendering is
> >> resolved in the current freetype.git HEAD code.
> >>  
> > 
> > This must be bug 52846 <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?52846>.  
> 
> Seems extremely like it - I could bisect, but it didn't seem worth the
> effort.

I ran into this when testing Xpdf with FreeType 2.9.  But it only
happened with Type 1 fonts, not with TrueType.  That seems to match the
bug report.

In any case, the current git code (as of a couple weeks ago when I ran
my tests) fixed the problem.

- Derek