Great, that should be very helpful and thanks for the very prompt reply! -JCT
-----Original Message----- From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2011 17:57 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ft] Differences between FT 2.3.9 & 2.4.4 that may cause poor rendering quality > I use an OpenGL library called Visualization Library which utilises > FreeType in providing the font rendering information in its text > renderer. In upgrading to their latest version I noticed a > significant degradation in the quality of the rendered text and the > only difference in this area with respect to VL was that they > started using FreeType 2.4.4 instead of 2.3.9 that they had used > previously. In version 2.4.0 the bytecode interpreter (for TTFs) has been activated as the default. Looking at the large rendering differences of your images, I suppose this is what you experience. > Does anyone know if any special compiler flags or options need to be > set when compiling FT 2.4.4 or some other reason why text rendering > quality would be worse under the latest version? It looks as though > some degree of antialiasing has been lost perhaps. The right way IMHO is to call FT_Load_Glyph with FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT. If that is not possible for you, undefine TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER while compiling FreeType. Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
