Re: [Freetype] News from the field

[Torgeir Veimo]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:45, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:11, David Turner wrote:
> > Hello Torgeir,
> > 
> > Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 10:51, David Turner wrote:
> > > 
> > >>   I'll try my best to find some time in the coming days to finalize
> > >>   2.1.4 by getting its last important bugs out, which are in my
> > >>   opinion:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>      - probably a few other annoying things that were lastly revealed
> > >>        on the mailing lists, or which  I discovered recently.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Does this include the rendering glitch with the bitstream charter type1
> > > font as described by me here last week?
> > > 
> > Probably not. I will only fix problems where:
> > 
> >    - the problem is well identified *and* well understood
> >    - the fix is obvious *or* has been thoroughly tested
> > 
> > I can only afford "quick looks" at existing problems, and since
> > touching the hinting algorithms is a *very* delicate process
> > (one improvement for one font may break other ones) there are
> > chances that this bug will not be fixed for 2.1.4
> 
> Ok. 
> 
> I put pshalgo3.c into 2.1.3 (with some tweaks) and got the same results.
> It seems stem_adjust is not being done anymore in 2.1.4rc2, because of
> the "#if 0" on line 523 in that file. Setting it to 1 works for 2.1.3,
> but not 2.1.4rc2. Any ideas?

It seems that reenabling psh3_dimension_quantize_len at line 337, and
reenabling stem adjusment at line 523 onwards fixes the issues with stem
widht I'm seeing. Is there a particular reason this has been disable for
2.1.4rc1/2?

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Torgeir Veimo <address@hidden>