On Monday 29 October 2007 10:45:22 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > > On Monday 29 October 2007 10:09:21 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> Michael Droettboom wrote: > >>> Darren Dale wrote: > >>>> I think the problem is related to autohinting. When I compile > >>>> freetype, the patented bytecode and subpixel hinting support is > >>>> disabled, I am using freetype's autohinting instead. I recompiled > >>>> freetype with the support for the patented hinting instead of > >>>> autohinting, and reran the test on cmmi.ttf. The result is > >>>> cmmi10_p.txt. > >>> > >>> That seems like a likely explanation... Exactly, which #defines did > >>> you change to make it work again? The vanilla freetype tarball works > >>> for me... > >> > >> I seem to have the reversed behavior. On my machine, if I have the > >> patented bytecodes disabled (which is the default when you download the > >> vanilla freetype tarball from freetype.sf.net), everything works. When > >> I define (uncomment) TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER in > >> ftoption.h, things break. (And great news, I'm finally able to > >> reproduce this problem.) Is that not what you see? > > > > Crap. I looked right over the "!" in "if ! use bindist". So you are > > correct, the problem occurs when support for patented hinting is enabled > > and autohinting is disabled. Did I get it right this time? (I'm running > > on very little sleep. Sorry for the confusion.) > > No worries. Grad to see we're at least seeing the same thing (this has > been a very elusive bug...) > > I submitted a fix for this in matplotlib SVN r4047. Freetype takes a > FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT flag to force it to bypass the patented bytecode > hinter at runtime (even if it was compiled in). This appears to fix the > problem, and doesn't force people to recompile their freetype -- they > should now get identical results regardless.
Works here, thank you very much for your hard work! Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
