Re: [ft-devel] How does one enable the new slight auto-hinting mode?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.04.29 at 12:46 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2017.04.29 at 12:25 +0200, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> > > >> What happens if you define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS?
> > > > 
> > > > No change.
> > > 
> > > Hmm.  This means that you don't use auto-hinting in your desktop
> > > environment, right?  Please do `git bisect' to find out which commit
> > > causes the changes.
> > 
> > I use "slight" hinting, so native CFF and the autohinter. Commit
> > 5aa6716a5eb8409f606886b5d4e63476d85a3519 is the culprit.
> > 
> > I take it Firefox is not rendering fonts weirdly for the rest of you?
> 
>  Chromium uses its own Freetype copy

Slight correction, Chromium does use the system FreeType library.
(Only on Android is the in-tree copy used.)
But strangely is see no issue related to slight auto-hinting in Chromium
at all.

-- 
Markus