> I am using FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO to render for example Geneva.ttf in
> monochrome mode at 7 points 96 DPI. As expected the change to v40
> made the text ugly, so I switched back to v35 by setting the
> truetype interpreter-version property. [...]
You've hit a bug in FreeType, already fixed in git. MONO rendering
should not be affected by selecting v40.
> 1) Is this the correct / recommended / future-proof way to render
> monochrome glyphs or do I need to tweak other settings?
Only FreeType versions 2.7 to 2.8 (inclusively) need v35 for MONO due
to the bug.
> 2) In some cases the ascender / descender values changed.
>
>>From 2.6.3:
> Loading font GENEVA.TTF 7
> font.fm.textHeight 12
> font.face.size.metrics.ascender 9 576
> font.face.size.metrics.descender -2 -128
>
> To 2.8:
> Loading font GENEVA.TTF 7
> font.fm.textHeight 12
> font.face.size.metrics.ascender 10 640
> font.face.size.metrics.descender -3 -192
Can you please try and check current git whether you still get these
differences?
Werner
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