Hi, this is just a forward and summary of Debian Bug #367593 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593).
Short description: After updating from freetype-2.1.10 to freetype-2.2.1 the font metrics change, but more importantly the antialiased fonts become extremely blurry. For most applications this can be workarounded by setting 'hintfull' as hintstyle, but doesn't work for all applications, such as OpenOffice. This bug already exits for sometime (I'm using a recompiled 2.1.10 at home as workaround), but there doesn't seem to be a real solution. I tested a 2.2.1 without any patches, with patches from Ubuntu Edgy, with patches from Opensuse - without any success, the fonts just stay blurry until switching back to 2.1.10. I also tested the levels of subpixel hinting - depending on the level, the fonts are either extremly blurry or blurry + wrong colour. It is really funny if a black letter is not printed black on the screen, but becomes redish. The only exception is full subpixel hinting, which works for most applications. But if only full subpixel hinting gives satisfactorily results, why is there an option for it? IMHO its also interesting that I so far didn't find any reports from other distributions. Any idea how to fix this problem or how to debug it? Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Schubert PCI / Theoretische Chemie Universität Heidelberg INF 229 69120 Heidelberg _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
