Re: [ft-devel] Something in 2.6.4 broke my windows (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 138, Issue 9)

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

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Hi Nikolaus!

I am one of those weird "windows fonts on unix" users. Yeah
minority I know, but recent update completely blew up my
setup. So sorry for mailing you out of blue!

I like pixel perfect look of ancient windows fonts, because
they allow me to conserve screen space.

Although I have big displays, I have reasonably good eyes to
read such small fonts.

I am also owner of valid Windows licence from XP times and I
used webfonts package to get them. So i belive this is
legitimate use.

After update, rendering breaks horribly at least in browsers
based on Gecko.  So much, that text is unreadable.

For now I downgraded my distribution package.  Please, what
can I do besides recompile, to keep old behaviour?

I don't care about ClearType in the slightest, I would just
like my Tahoma and Arial to be pixel perfect crispy as I am
used to.

I would also like to push for this to be solved at upstream,
as I am certainly not the only one who is having these
problems.

At least some fontconfig option, I can manually define for
these few fonts I depend on, would be helpful.

I tried to dig out info on mailing lists, but it is all
really complex.  However there was whitelisting proposed for
these specific fonts.  Can that be implemented and used to
solve the problem?

From my research it seem, you are the person "in the know"
about this thing.

Thank you for your hard work!

  eto