> From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 06:41:24 -0500 [...] > > This problem returned in BLFS 8.0 but with a twist as neither method I > used in 7.10 works. But deleting/renaming > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf plus adding the following to > /etc/profile works: > > export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 > cff:no-stem-darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1" > > The above works only without /etc/fonts/local.conf. > > Again, this is not a BLFS problem. It may be a freetype problem as the > freetype version changed between 7.10 and 8.0. It's posslble the > interpreter line added to /etc/profile will be unnecessary with the next > version. I hope. > > I'm probably in the minority but I greatly prefer the lighter, crisper, > pre-10-hinting-slight.conf fonts. There may be other ways to achieve > them but the above method works well on my box. >
Not sure if this is covered ~implicitly in the followups from you/Mike to orig msg above - but anyhow, in case it sheds any addl light: just saw today: ==== http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64 Current (pre-release) ChangeLog for x86_64 Wed Apr 26 23:09:45 UTC 2017 [...] l/freetype-2.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Subpixel hinting has been enabled upstream by default, but you may adjust this in /etc/profile.d/freetype.{csh,sh}. ==== And it's 2.7.1 freetye that's in blfs-8.0 and not in blfs-7.10 : ==== http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.10/ FreeType-2.6.5 Fontconfig-2.12.1 == http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/8.0/ FreeType-2.7.1 Fontconfig-2.12.1 ==== akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
