RE: [ft-devel] Re: [Devel] Problem with Monospace at size 8

[Turner, David]

Hello Adam,

this is rather strange, because I cannot reproduce this
behaviour using "ftstring", even when toggling kerning on/off.

Are you sure that your only changed FreeType when you performed
your upgrade ? Wasn't there other libraries, like libXft involved ?

As long as we can't reproduce this problem with FreeType alone,
I'll assume that something higher level like libXft or Pango is
the source of this anomaly.

However, a simple way to get sure is to perform FreeType-limited
re-installs on your machine, and see if it changes anything in
the case of unhinted rendering.

Hope this helps,

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


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> Adam Sampson
> Envoyé : jeudi 27 janvier 2005 14:42
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> Objet : [ft-devel] Re: [Devel] Problem with Monospace at size 8
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> 
> (Resending this, since it looks like it never made it through
> originally...)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:29:04PM -0200, Mateus Gröess wrote:
> > I am having problems with "Monospace" and "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"
> > capital letters at size of 8 points after upgraded to X.org 6.8.1 of
> > Slackware-current. I was running X-Free86 4.3.0 with freetype-2.1.7
> > without similar problems.
> 
> Hrm -- coincidentally, I've just been looking at some screenshots from
> earlier in the year, and was surprised how much better the unhinted
> rendering of Bitstream Vera Sans used to be when I was using 
> 2.1.5. I'm
> wondering if this might be a related problem, since it looks like some
> glyphs are now getting rendered a pixel narrower than they 
> should be for
> both of us.
> 
> Here's a side-by-side view, with the old screenshot on the left and a
> similar new one on the right:
>   http://offog.org/stuff/freetype-vera-5-9.png
> 
> The individual glyphs are being rendered much the same, but 
> the spacing
> between them isn't correct in the new one. Look at the "it" in "Hit",
> and the "ys" in "Days"...
> 
> I can try going back version by version to see when it changed, unless
> anybody's got any immediate ideas on what's causing it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Adam Sampson <address@hidden>                        
> <http://offog.org/>
> 
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