FS#1957 - Latest freetype2.1.9-1 upgrade causes font problems in KDE 3.3
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Opened by Jeremy M. (jskier) - Saturday, 01 January 2005, 18:32 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Sunday, 02 January 2005, 12:42 GMT
Opened by Jeremy M. (jskier) - Saturday, 01 January 2005, 18:32 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Sunday, 02 January 2005, 12:42 GMT
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I noticed that after upgrading on both my laptop and desktop
to freetype2.1.9-1 my fonts in KDE 3.3 degraded in quality
everywhere. In Thunderbird the fonts were so badly out of
alignment. I tried both the Bitstream and MS fonts with the
same results.
I was able to temporarily fix this by downgrading to 2.1.7-1 on both machines. ---EDIT--- this is not a KDE issue, but seems to be sourced in freetype itself ---EDIT--- 
freetype2-2.1.9-2.pkg.tar.gz
(663.2 KiB)
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http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/screenies/ft2.1.9.png
http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/screenies/ft2.1.7.png
the 2.1.9 is more blurry all the way. I don't know if that is somehow related to the bytcode patch.
For the records, the hinter settings:
http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/screenies/ft-hint.png
and additional i found that:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75424
------- Additional Comment #31 From Li Zhengang 2004-12-28 07:08 PST -------
I didn't see a fix on 2.1.9-r1, neither did a manual uncomment on the bytecode interpreter macro.
Now I'm in 2.1.5-r1.
I found sth on the freetype maillist:
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> I have a problem since moving to freetype2.1.9 with the bytecode
> interpreter enabled. There seems to be some blurring with fonts when
> they are approximately horizontal. Going back to freetype2.1.7
> fixes this problem. I'm not sure how much you support the bytecode
> interpreter but I thought I'd give you a heads up about this
> problem:
Pleae try the current CVS; a serious bug in the TT interpreter has
been introduced in 2.1.8 and fixed recently.
Werner
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There's a 2.1.10 to be released soon according to the maillist.
We'd better wait for that.
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/media-libs/freetype/files/freetype-2.1.9-fix_bci.patch
here the PKGBUILD:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.26 2004/12/13 19:05:10 judd Exp $
# Maintainer: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
pkgname=freetype2
pkgver=2.1.9
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="TrueType font rendering library"
url="http://freetype.sourceforge.net"
depends=('glibc' 'zlib')
source=(ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/freetype/freetype2/freetype-$pkgver.tar.bz2 \
bytecode.patch freetype-2.1.9-fix_bci.patch)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/freetype-$pkgver
# enable the bytecode interpreter
patch -Np1 -i ../bytecode.patch || return 1
# fix hinting bug
patch -Np1 -i ../freetype-2.1.9-fix_bci.patch || return 1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}
md5sums=('ec1b903e4be5f073caa72458ea58c29c' '99ef2d11ed112baf218605a96c791858'\
'6c404648e3cb8f86b329f7dac5d70cc8')