Thank you very much for this explanation. The issue has bothered me for a long time, I hope this file can be closed for good now.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:48:28PM +0900, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:25:12 +0100 > Cedric Sodhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I'm pleased to announce that a update of several packages has resolved > >this issue, among which Freetype was updated to 4.4 (I had wrongly > >stated that I already had 4.4 when I checked it while the update was > >running). > > Thank you for notice. By statically built binary with the > latest FreeType2, the issue disappeard in my side too. > I guess, freetype-2.4.3 was the root of this issue. > > Before freetype-2.4.2, most TTFs are rendered without > hinting, when no-hint flag is given. > > In freetype-2.4.3, nameless TTF is rendered with hinting, > even when no-hint flag is given. This change was introduced > for tricky Chinese TTF which break their shapes unreadably > if rendered without hinter. Originally, such font was > detected by the font family name, but embedded TTF in PDF > often lacks its family name. Thus, there was a proposal > to enable hinting for nameless TTF in PDF. It was adopted, > so freetype-2.4.3 enables the hinting for nameless font. > > Afterwards, some PDF browser users complained that still > FreeType2 hinter makes worse results for some Latin fonts > and "nameless font" is too loose condition to enable hinting > forcibly. So, I've introduced another way to identify the > tricky Chinese TTF even if the font is nameless. This new > detector is included in freetype-2.4.4, so, this issue > mignt disappear. > > >Thanks for your help so far. If I can do something to help you pin this > >down for the sake of developing freetype, please do so! I also would > >like to know what is (was, lucklily) the cause of that. > > > >Cedric > > > >PS: I'm not hundred percent sure that the update of freetype did the > >job, If possible, I will dowgrade FT later and see whether the propblem > >reappears. _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
