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FS#4713 - hinting issues with new fontconfig

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 27 May 2006, 02:55 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 27 May 2006, 05:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=21622

Basically, the current version of fontconfig causes light and medium hinting settings to blur and distort fonts to the point of unreadability; enabling full hinting will get rid of these effects, but not everyone would want full hinting - in some cases it also distorts things.

Interestingly, the effect on fonts with light or medium hinting enabled is *exactly* the same as that produced by the autohinter, in both the current version and previous ones.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 07:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 09:43 GMT
Okay there is a fix for this, thanks very much to Test1000... See here:

http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/rogue-patches.html

The one we want is probably for fontconfig.
Comment by Tom Billiet (mouse256) - Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 11:58 GMT
As far as I can see this patch is already applied to the current fontconfig (added 19/05/06)
So I think this won't help.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 17:48 GMT
Right you are... I wonder what the bloody hell happened that screwed up the autohinter so badly. It's supposed to be *better* in this version!
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 19 June 2006, 20:47 GMT
Debian bugtracker reference:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 00:34 GMT
That looks about right for what you see when enabling subpixel AA, though it's kind of hard to tell on a CRT monitor.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 00:39 GMT
Okay JGC closed the report I posted on the BCI and redirected me here, so I might as well mention it here... The bytecode interpreter still can't be activated, even if you explicitly disable the autohinter in /etc/fonts/conf.d or /etc/fonts/local.conf, in spite of the patch to reenable it (which definitely ought to work).

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