Re: [ft-devel] severe problems with subpixel hinting

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
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Re: [ft-devel] severe problems with subpixel hinting

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm unable to duplicate the first issue you mentioned, regarding the > B/W text. Ah, I forgot to tell you how to build. For a build with subpixel hinting, simply I say make devel make from a clean (unmodified) repository. For a build without subpixel hinting, modify `devel/ftoption.h' (

Re: [ft-devel] severe problems with subpixel hinting

2012-12-20 Thread Infinality
I'm unable to duplicate the first issue you mentioned, regarding the B/W text. When I run ftview as you stated, and hit 'a', the result is the same as your first picture, with the well-hinted monochrome characters. So, something must be different between our builds. I imagine that fontconfig

[ft-devel] severe problems with subpixel hinting

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Erik, there are at least two serious problems if FreeType gets compiled with subpixel hinting . B/W rendering sucks. Attached you can find two images, with and without subpixel hinting, showing the font arial.ttf, version 5.06. I've simply called ftview 15 arial.ttf and

[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.11 amalgamation RC1

2012-12-20 Thread Vinnie Falco
I've updated the FreeType amalgamation to the recently released version of FreeType, 2.4.11. It is available in the "develop" branch of the official amalgamation repository: https://github.com/vinniefalco/FreeTypeAmalgam If there are no bug reports or requests I will publish this to the master br

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.11 amalgamation

2012-12-20 Thread Vinnie Falco
> ... > All of this is outside of an FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC block. > > Maybe you are missing the file `svprop.h'? I tracked it down. "afpic.h" includes svprop.h conditionally. Since afpic.h is seen before an unconditional include of svprop.h (in my amalgamation templates), the first time it is inclu

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.11 amalgamation

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm having the dickens of a time putting together a new > amalgamation. It seems afmodule.c uses the type > 'FT_Properties_SetFunc', which is only declared if > FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC is set? But FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC is not set in > my configuration so I am getting a compile error. Something is

[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.11 amalgamation

2012-12-20 Thread Vinnie Falco
> FreeType 2.4.11 has been released. I'm having the dickens of a time putting together a new amalgamation. It seems afmodule.c uses the type 'FT_Properties_SetFunc', which is only declared if FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC is set? But FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC is not set in my configuration so I am getting a com

Re: [ft-devel] Pledgie Campaign for Development and Maintainance

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've started a pledgie campaign for FreeType development and > maintainance. Oops, a fourth one, this time with the link to the pledgie site :-) http://pledgie.com/campaigns/18808 Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.

[ft-devel] Pledgie Campaign for Development and Maintainance

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
This is the last in the series of today's three announcements, and the most important for me personally. I've started a pledgie campaign for FreeType development and maintainance. While no single company employs me directly to work on it, I am constantly improving it, adding new features, relent

[ft-devel] FreeType's webpage redesigned

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I've completely redesigned FreeType's website, giving it a more recent look to enhance readability and to make navigation easier. Please note that only the two topmost levels have been changed yet; the remaining pages will follow. Enjoy! Werner __

[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.10 has been released

2012-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
FreeType 2.4.11 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file; all