Hi Hin-Tak On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:06 PM Hin-Tak Leung <ht...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I see the infinality patch is already gone (next release, 2.13.2 I guess - > bits of it was removed in 2.13.1 already).
Infinality (v38) was substituted by v40 in 2.13.1. Anybody requesting v38 got v40 instead... and nobody even noticed. That is the whole point of the exercise: v40 is perfectly capable and better than just good enough. Now the code is physically gone for good. It is much better to improve faster and lighter v40 moving forward than dwelling on unmaintained, poorly understood, and riddled with exceptions v38. > FWIW, fontval will carry the reverse diff. Why? Or, more precisely, why do you think that either v38 or v40 were ever designed to mimic the corresponding versions of Microsoft engine? That was never the case. *Both* of FreeType implementations were based on principles described in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype. Both! but neither was actually tested to reproduce Microsoft precisely. Much like we have no idea how Microsoft does ClearType filtering, except for some public papers. If anybody, Adobe helped here a lot more. Microsoft is multisampling for antialiasing, we don't. Therefore, FreeType != Microsoft in any sense, including v38 != 38 (GETINFO version). Alexei
