Re: [Devel] Fwd: Bug#179450: libfreetype6: Misaligned font spacing/sizing

[David Turner]

Hello Anthony,

Anthony Fok wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The latest FreeType CVS (as of 2003-01-31) appears to have deteriorated
> bytecode-enabled rendering.  Latin text (e.g. those from Times News
> Roman, Andale Mono, etc.) looks a bit weird, but by the time I noticed
> it (on my CRT monitor with non-sub-pixel rendering), I had already
> uploaded it to Debian unstable.  Oh well.  :-)
>
> Anyhow, as expected, other Debian users noticed the difference and
> filed a bug report, with screenshots and all.
>
>   2.1.3-8 = CVS update as of 2003-01-31, bytecode interpreter on.
>
>   2.1.3-7 = CVS update as of 2003-01-22, with David Chester's latest
>             bluescale2 patch (2003-01-23 on the devel mailing list);
>             bytecode interpreter on.
>
> Thanks in advance!
Just fixed this in the CVS, please test before RC2 :-)

by the way, the vertical spacing might still be different, but I do not
consider this as a bug..

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)



> Anthony
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Matt Biddulph <address@hidden> -----
>
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:55:24 +0000
> From: address@hidden (Matt Biddulph)
> Subject: Bug#179450: libfreetype6: Misaligned font spacing/sizing
>
> Package: libfreetype6
> Version: 2.1.3-8
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
>  
> Between 2.1.3-7 and 2.1.3-8, it appears that horizontal font sizing and
> spacing got broken. These galeon screenshots show the problem:
>  
> http://www.picdiary.com/~mattb/misc/freetype-8.png
> http://www.picdiary.com/~mattb/misc/freetype-7.png
>  
> Look for example at the word 'declared' - the letter 'e' is too thin and
> has too much whitespace on the right.
>
> I have subpixel rendering in "rgb" mode enabled.
>  
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux cat 2.4.20 #2 Sat Jan 25 15:20:00 GMT 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
>  
> Versions of packages libfreetype6 depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.3.1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-9  compression library - runtime
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----