Re: [Devel] Character positioning issue still exists: more rounding error(s)?

[David Turner]

Hi Anthony,

Anthony Fok wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry, I spoke too soon.  I receive more screenshots from a Debian users
> after my upload of the latest 2003-03-15 CVS.  To my untrained eyes, it
> seems that letters like "i", "l" got shifted (so that the letters look stuck
> together), and "A" looks horizontally compressed.  (If I am not mistaken,
> Filipe's screenshots are rendered with Xft using the Tahoma font.) I wonder
> if it is yet more rounding errors?
Could you confirm me that this bug is still present in the current
implementation (i.e. this morning's CVS ?)

Regards,

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



> Thanks in advance,
>
> Anthony
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Filipe Sousa <address@hidden> -----
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:52:21 +0000
> From: Filipe Sousa <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Hi,
>
> This upgrade does not solve my problem with true type fonts, but I discovered 
> some things that might help you.
>
> Here you can see some screenshots of qtconfig (part of qt3):
> This is how the fonts should look 
> <http://www.nux.ipb.pt/~phil/qtconfig_good.png>, anti-aliasing is disabled.
> This is how the fonts looks when enabling AA to some fonts sizes
> <http://www.nux.ipb.pt/~phil/qtconfig_bad.png>
> When I enable AA to all font:
> <http://www.nux.ipb.pt/~phil/qtconfig.png>
>
> Now, if freetype can render fonts properly with AA disable (screenshot 1) them 
> it should render properly when AA is disable for some sizes and enable to 
> other sizes (screenshot 2).
>
> This is my .fonts.conf
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>  <match target="font" >
>   <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
>    <const>rgb</const>
>   </edit>
>  </match>
> </fontconfig>