On Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3:45:21 PM CEST Werner LEMBERG wrote: > I've just tested a self-compiled version of current git, together with > the `ftview` demo program, using UbuntuMono-R.ttf (version 0.8, last > modified 2011-09-26). Attached is a screenshot of the following call > > ftview -kA5 -e unic 16 UbuntuMono-R.ttf > > This is B/W monochrome rendering with full hinting. As can be seen, > the result is just fine. I'm quite confident that the problem is > *not* with FreeType.
This is a regression from 22.10 to 23.04 and Ubuntu(-mono) has seen some changes since 22.10, so let's compare the same font, because I do suspect weird (libfreetype?) behaviour on Ubuntu 23.04 which I can't explain. Attached is a screenshot of OpenSans-VariableFont_wdth,wght.ttf using the same commandline. It clearly shows bad hinting and I'm convinced this looked better hinted on 22.04, so I suspect it will look correct on your system too? https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans I also attach the hinted non-AA ftinspect view of the same font. ftview and ftinspect were compiled against freetype 2.13.0. As far as I can tell, I'm using libfreetype 2.13.0 to render fonts on my system (I don't know whether that's important for ftview and ftinspect?) Martin
