[Freetype] Comments on quality

[Artur Zaprzala]

I installed freetype 2.0.6 (compiled without any modifications) on 
RedHat 7.1.

The first attachment is a small screenshot of:
ftview -r 100 10 comic.ttf
(comic.ttf is Comic Sans MS Regular v2.10)
The letters P, b, c, d, i, k clearly (and ugly) stand out (are too thin).
However, at 9pt A, M, N, V, v, w, x, y, z stand out (are too thick).
Similar irregularities are noticable from 8 through 12 points (at 100dpi).

After recompiling with TrueType bytecode interpreter enabled, everything 
looks perfect (wow!), but there are exceptions :-(.
The second attachment shows letter X (comic.ttf, 10pt, 100dpi, ftview), 
which partially dissappeared.
When increasing and decreasing font size in ftview, I noticed that the 
position of letter Y relative to the baseline changes slightly from size 
to size.

And now Type1 fonts.
When examining font Nimbus Sans L Regular v1.05 (URW) from 
urw-fonts-2.0-12.noarch.rpm with command:
ftview -r 100 10 n019003l.pfb
The letters AKMNVWXYZvwxy look to thick.

I could notice similar results with other fonts too.

What do you think? Is it buggy gcc, font, freetype or everything is ok?


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Artur Zaprzała