[ft-devel] Freetype giving thing letters when doing subpixel rendering

2009-12-31 Thread Albert Astals Cid
Hi, i'm trying to add subpixel rendering to poppler and i've found that letters are somewhat sharper but also much thinner, i know one is a consequence of the other, but what should be a reading aid ends up being worse since letters are too thin. I'm attaching the rendering of a "o" and you can

Re: [ft-devel] compile errors when using FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC

2009-12-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> building current freetype from your git repo i've run into some > compile problems when FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC is defined. since i > don't have an account on savannah i figured i'd send you a patch > (attached) - i hope this is ok. anyways, here are the individual > diffs, with an explanation of

Re: [ft-devel] Freetype giving thing letters when doing subpixel rendering

2009-12-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Hi, i'm trying to add subpixel rendering to poppler and i've found > that letters are somewhat sharper but also much thinner, i know one > is a consequence of the other, but what should be a reading aid ends > up being worse since letters are too thin. [...] A quick resolution is to use native