Re: [ft] rendering changes 2.1.10 -> 2.2.1

[David Turner]

There are indeed differences in the auto-hinter between various
FreeType releases, since we try to enhance it incrementally (and
this will be true for the next release, by the way, which should
treat serif fonts much better, try the CVS if you want).

I fail to see exactly what the problem is; you're not even providing
screenshots nor telling what is wrong, only that things are "different".

Could you be about more specific about what you see as a "bug" here ?
It helps when you stick it to the usual trio of:

- what you did to show the bug
- what you were expecting
- what you got instead

Thanks in advance,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:44:18 -0800, "Gordon Messmer" <address@hidden> said:
> I noticed that there was a conversation earlier (before I was on the 
> list) about FC6 users filing bugs against freetype which might be cairo 
> or fontconfig bugs, and I'm wondering if this is or isn't one of those.
> 
> Font rendering on FC6 differs from FC5.  I'm testing using a copy of 
> libfreetype.so.6 that I copied from an FC5 system into ~/freetype.  I'm 
> using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load one copy of a Gnome application, and then 
> loading a separate copy of the application with the usual library path. 
>   When I select "None" or "Full" hinting in the font configuration 
> panel, the two applications look identical.  However, if I select 
> "Slight" or "Medium" the two applications may look different.
> 
> Luxi Sans looks the same at medium hinting, but Courier and Luxi Mono 
> differ at both Slight and Medium.  I can't find any font that is 
> rendered differently by the LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack when None or Full is 
> selected.
> 
> Since the only difference between the two applications is the version of 
> the freetype library (and anything statically linked?), it seems like 
> there changes are probably therein.  The question is, what else can I do 
> to find the problem?  I don't like the shapes of characters with Full 
> hinting (never did), as it seems to squish characters horizontally. 
> However, where Medium hinting used to provide very pleasing results, it 
> now seems to squish characters vertically, and they're fuzzy.
> 
> 
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