[Freetype] How to get Freetype to draw fonts as well as Windows?

[Pedriana, Paul]

I get imperfect rendering of many fonts with Freetype. They tend to have little pixel glitches that

seem to be the rasterizer turning pixels on that shouldn't be on. This behaviour is also seen in

the online Freetype demo at http://mbox.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~peak/ftdemo/index.cgi

 

Below are some examples with Arial, though Freetype has problems with other fonts as well.

In each case below there is some glitch that is pointed out that Windows doesn't do. The

demos below are with Windows' Arial, but I have similar kinds of problems with other fonts.

Usually the problem is too many pixels being set (all three cases below). Funny enough,

these problems didn't happen with the old Beta 2.0 version of Freetype.

 

Any explanations or help? How can I get it to work properly like the old FreeType 2 Beta worked?