On 2009-01-16 23:43-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:

> If it is any consolation I can confirm your report on my Ubuntu system.
> Example 24 has not been updated since mid 2006 other than for a const
> char * tidy-up. The cookbook in in the example does say to use -drvopt
> smooth=0 so I suspect this is an old bug.

Sorry, my eyes somehow missed that -drvopt smooth=0 in the instructions, but
now that I am up to speed on those instructions, I agree it must be a
longstanding workaround for a bug since the smooth=1 case works everywhere
else we have unicode test.

> I am still at a loss though as
> to the cause. Looking in gd.c and plfreetype.c the smooth_text variable
> appears in very few places - principally in the call to FT_Load_Char.
> There is nothing obviously wrong to me.

Thanks for taking a look.

Alan
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