> Well, yes. And I received a stupefying reaction when I expressed > disbelief about this claim back then: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-August/005008.html
Sounds like he sees a slight difference, not enough to personally care about it, but would accept a good patch if someone else cares enough to write one. > The removal of filtering API is something in addition to that (i.e., > just using the filters that FreeType provides) and Ubuntu doesn’t patch > that back in now. The filtering API was introduced in 1.7.2 and removed in 1.7.4/1.7.6; it has never been on the stable 1.6 or 1.8 branches. Ubuntu has never had a package with this API, except briefly during the Intrepid development cycle. The way forward here is to work with Cairo upstream to resolve the problems with users whose FreeType lacks subpixel rendering, and try get the patches reintroduced for the 1.9 branch. > Yes, but there are still many users who revert back to the old look and > the old filter (e.g.: http://goo.gl/tnvl ) People’s monitors, vision, and preferences differ; they always will. We should respect that instead of forcing our preferences upon them. > The reason is that you would get very bad kerning if you would enable > full hinting in a PDF. Hasn’t that been a solved problem for many years? http://fishsoup.net/articles/grid-fitting/ (I personally prefer slight hinting, but if different settings work for other people that’s fine with me!) -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
