> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:34:35 +0100
> From: [email protected] (akhiezer)
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 06:41:24 -0500
> [...]
> >
> > This problem returned in BLFS 8.0 but with a twist as neither method I 
> > used in 7.10 works.  But deleting/renaming 
> > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf plus adding the following to 
> > /etc/profile works:
> >
> >     export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 
> > cff:no-stem-darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1"
> >
> > The above works only without /etc/fonts/local.conf.
> >
> > Again, this is not a BLFS problem.  It may be a freetype problem as the 
> > freetype version changed between 7.10 and 8.0.  It's posslble the 
> > interpreter line added to /etc/profile will be unnecessary with the next 
> > version.  I hope.
> >
> > I'm probably in the minority but I greatly prefer the lighter, crisper, 
> > pre-10-hinting-slight.conf fonts.  There may be other ways to achieve 
> > them but the above method works well on my box.
> >
>
>
> Not sure if this is covered ~implicitly in the followups from you/Mike


 - ah, yeah, looks like it's essentially covered in:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.7/
"... IMPORTANT CHANGES ..."


> to orig msg above - but anyhow, in case it sheds any addl light: just
> saw today:
> ====
> http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64
>
>  Current (pre-release) ChangeLog for x86_64
>
> Wed Apr 26 23:09:45 UTC 2017
> [...]
> l/freetype-2.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
>        Subpixel hinting has been enabled upstream by default, but you
>        may adjust this in /etc/profile.d/freetype.{csh,sh}.
> ====
>
>
> And it's 2.7.1 freetye that's in blfs-8.0 and not in blfs-7.10 :
> ====
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.10/
> FreeType-2.6.5
> Fontconfig-2.12.1
> ==
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/8.0/
> FreeType-2.7.1
> Fontconfig-2.12.1
> ====
>



akh





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