[dev] freetype hinting
Hi, I'm presently investigating why openoffice fonts look more blurry with freetype-2.2.1 than with freetype-2.1.10, see this thread http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00050.html I think finally I found the reason whats the problem: in vcl/source/glyphs/gcach_ftyp.cxx:857 #if (FTVERSION = 2005) || defined(TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER) if( nDefaultPrioAutoHint = 0 ) #endif mnLoadFlags |= FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING; #ifdef FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT // enable light hinting if available if( !(mnLoadFlags FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING) (nFTVERSION = 2103)) mnLoadFlags |= FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT; #endif So when the bytecode interpreter and light-hinting is available, it will set FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT. Now, referring to David Turner (see http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00045.html), the bytecode interpreter won't be used if light-hinting is enabled. May I ask why gcach_ftyp.cxx is trying to handle all this stuff itself and not just asking fontconfig? I mean, I see there is vcl/source/gdi/fontcfg.cxx, so somehow fontconfig is used. But why aren't its defaults used for hinting as well? Thanks, Bernd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] freetype hinting
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:46 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: Hi, I'm presently investigating why openoffice fonts look more blurry with freetype-2.2.1 than with freetype-2.1.10, see this thread http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00050.html I think finally I found the reason whats the problem: in vcl/source/glyphs/gcach_ftyp.cxx:857 ... May I ask why gcach_ftyp.cxx is trying to handle all this stuff itself and not just asking fontconfig? I mean, I see there is vcl/source/gdi/fontcfg.cxx, so somehow fontconfig is used. But why aren't its defaults used for hinting as well? Maybe you'd be interested in the use fontconfig hinting patch at issue 64508 which affects some of this. Though as well as the fontconfig defaults, there are also now cairo defaults which affect gtk2 apps, for that patch to additionally honour those settings see issue 59127 C. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Re: freetype hinting
Hello Caolan, Caolan McNamara wrote: May I ask why gcach_ftyp.cxx is trying to handle all this stuff itself and not just asking fontconfig? I mean, I see there is vcl/source/gdi/fontcfg.cxx, so somehow fontconfig is used. But why aren't its defaults used for hinting as well? Maybe you'd be interested in the use fontconfig hinting patch at issue 64508 which affects some of this. Though as well as the fontconfig defaults, there are also now cairo defaults which affect gtk2 apps, for that patch to additionally honour those settings see issue 59127 thanks for your answer. Good to see there's already work in this area, pity that the patch didn't make it into openoffice-2.0.4. Thanks again, Bernd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
