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

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:34 PM, James Cloos <address@hidden> wrote:

> You can tell most fontconfig apps to force autohinting with the
> 10-autohint.conf file in /etc/fonts/conf.available.  Symlink it
> into the conf.d dir.  You might also want to enable ft's light-
> autofit feature with:

the two screenshots were generated with the same executable program on
the same machine. the only thing that was different was the instance
of libfreetype.so that was used. so i'm not sure autohinting is the
answer here. but i thank you very much for your insights.

> Or, look at these options in include/freetype/config/ftoption.h:
>
>  FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
>  TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
>  TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING
>
> The rpm build script might set or unset any of those outside of the
> patches it applies.

I applied all the patches, which (among other things) turn on the
first two and leave the third one untouched (which appears to be a
mistake according to the comments in ftoption.h)

so the upper rendition is from a build that had SUBPIXEL, BYTECODE
both enabled. the lower one (which i prefer) ... well, i don't know.
fedora claims that it has neither.