Richard Neill wrote:
>  >> Shouldn't antialiasing be enabled?
>  >>
>  > If it is fonts looks blured. I have BTC enabled on my Slackware box 
> and it looks good without antialiasing.
>  >> Also, could you provide a more detailed info on what fonts do you have
>  >> installed? (I do not know what you mean with "all MS ttf fonts").
>  >>
> 
> 
> I reported this bug 6 months ago at the time of 2007.0 Beta. I'm 
> horrified to hear it still hasn't been fixed! I think that the PLF 
> libfreetype6 has been compiled without the bytecode interpreter being 
> properly enabled.

Yes, there was a bug that prevented the bytecode interpreter being
enabled, but I fixed that in 2.2.1-8plf.

> Everything was fine in 2006, (and in fact for years before that). Could 
> the person who compiled libfreetyp6 for the plf perhaps do a diff 
> against the previous version to see what changed?

The most major change is the freetype upgrade 2.1 => 2.2, which changed
the way bytecode interpreter was enabled. Therefore it was broken before
2.2.1-8plf.

> 
> If any more info is needed on how it *should* work, please see my 
> webpage here, referring to Mdv 2006. It includes some images.
>   http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#fonts

I tried with Arial, antialiasing disabled.

With 2.2.1-4mdv, I see it like
http://www.richardneill.org/images/font-antialiasing-hinting-samples/spidery.png

But with 2.2.1-8plf, the Arial font renders properly (i.e. hinted).

Could someone please provide the name of some font that has the problem,
so that I could reproduce and fix it sometime?

> 
> Alternatively (much as I hate to say this), use a Debian based distro 
> (Debian/Knoppix/Ubuntu), because they just ignore the software patent, 
> and build libfreetype correctly in the main distro.
> [That said, Ubuntu Edgy has a bug in OpenOffice fonts, which is specific 
> to OOo, but rather nasty]


-- 
Anssi Hannula

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