Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

2010-10-22 Thread Robin Watts
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:03:29 +0200 Wojtek Mamrak wrote: I observed some differences in how fonts are rendered. Here is the screen showing same text rendered with the same font family and font size: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3171/freetype.jpg While it probably doesn't matter in this

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

2010-10-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I can't tell you that without knowing details. Most important: Which font? Do you see the artifacts with `ftview' also? arial no, I didn't try ftview. Do you need any other details? [Testing with arial.ttf version 3.00] The first row in your image is arial if used with the autohinter.

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

2010-10-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I observed some differences in how fonts are rendered. Here is the screen showing same text rendered with the same font family and font size: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3171/freetype.jpg As you can see I used the most recent version of the library and some older one. Which

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

2010-10-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In fact the entire display in my application is broken now. The problem happens when hinting is enabled. If you turn off hinting, the line weights will all look correct. Of course, then hinting won't work. Which font? In case it is not a public one, please send it to me privately.

Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

2010-10-16 Thread Alexander Shaduri
Hello, On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:03:29 +0200 Wojtek Mamrak wrote: Hello, I observed some differences in how fonts are rendered. Here is the screen showing same text rendered with the same font family and font size: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3171/freetype.jpg AFAIK, 2.4.0 enabled