Re: [ft-devel] Two patches for FT

[David Turner]

Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> > > The fact that tahoma 8px is rendered just fine in WinXP make me
> > > think that its bytecode interepreter is buggy.  Correct me if I'm
> > > wrong.
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> A follow-up: Attached are two images; the first (from fontforge) shows
> the shape if only pixel centers are switched on; the second (from
> ftview, magnified) if dropout control is active.  Note that FreeType
> always use dropout mode 2 -- it is a long-standing `bug' that this
> can't be changed.
Werner, the fact that the drop-out mode is hard-coded to 2 isn't
a bug, it's a "feature" :-) It's the only way to get results that
match Windows in all cases.

Using the other modes, as specified by the font, results in misplaced
pixels.

I'm also attaching a screenshot that shows that Tahoma at 8ppem isn't
even displayed as monochrome by WinXP.

After all, there is a reason for the gasp table :-)

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


> Can you in turn send us how the `8' at 8ppem looks like with WinXP?
>
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>     Werner
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