Re: [ft] how to build freetype so that it matches 1 of 2 observed behaviours

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> i consider the upper section of the image to have inferior rendering
>> than the lower one. i'm trying to figure out how to build a version of
>> freetype that will render like the lower section. as an experiment, i
>> fetched fedora's source rpm, ripped out the tarball, applied all their
>> patches, and built that. this too rendered like the source builds i
>> had tried before.
>
> Maybe this is an issue of autohinter vs. native TrueType hinter,
> combined with different filtering...

is there any obvious reason why a build based on fedora's src rpm (ie.
freetype 2.3.11 plus a set of patches) could possibly render
differently than their own build of the same?