Re: [ft-devel] How does one enable the new slight auto-hinting mode?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.04.29 at 17:50 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> >> But strangely is see no issue related to slight auto-hinting in
> >> Chromium at all.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> > Here is another example which uses webfonts:
> > http://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts/ 
> > Chromium above, Firefox below: http://imgur.com/a/WNR1R
> 
> Ouch.  However, I think it is *impossible* to get such a bad result
> with my change.  Are you sure that Firefox's font cache was refreshed?

Yes. I have deleted the cache, but it make no difference.

> Unfortunately, on my openSUSE box, Firefox seems to use a compiled-in
> FreeType version, since `ldd' shows nothing (and testing with
> `LD_PRELOAD' doesn't show a difference).

The firefox binary is just a small wrapper that loads libxul.so.
On my system:

 % ldd /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so | grep freety
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fd9a5aeb000)

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Markus