Re: [Devel] Courier New rendering bug

[Suzanne Skinner]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:26:37AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> The real question is how the Windows/Apple TrueType rendering engine
> behaves.  Can someone test this?  It is possible that the font hasn't
> been optimized for those cases, and that FreeType had a `bug' which
> made it appear better in earlier versions (which it shouldn't -- the
> output of TrueType fonts should exactly be the same on all platforms).

The other possibility is that, with the older X/freetype, my DPI wasn't being
used and it was rendering at the default 72 (note I'm currently using the X
"freetype" module, not fontconfig). I don't know the gritty details of how X
does things. Of course it would be great if fonts would render beautifully at
all DPI's but I don't know if this is possible.

I think I may try switching back to fontconfig, which should allow me to
specify DPI directly, thus avoiding this nonsense :-)

Suzanne

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