Re: [ft-devel] Subpixel Hinting is Broken

[Infinality]

Alexei's latest commit seems to have fixed the issue.


On 01/25/2013 10:36 PM, Infinality wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've spent the last few hours trying to figure out what was wrong with 
> my code (because I naturally assume that something is messed up with 
> *it*. :D  )  Well, it turns out that some recent change to Freetype 
> has broken subpixel hinting.
>
> Compile the last release with subpixel hinting and rendering enabled, 
> and run ftview on Courier New (Windows 8 version, but others may work):
> ftview -r 96 10.0 /usr/share/fonts/windows8/cour.ttf
>
> Hit 'L' twice and the down arrow twice, and Esc.  Fails = 0.
>
> Then, compile the latest git with subpixel hinting and rendering 
> enabled, and repeat.  I get 713 fails.  I tried reverting certain more 
> obvious things with the changes since the last release, but wasn't 
> able to narrow down the cause.
>
> Any ideas on what might have caused this?
>
> Thanks,
> Erik