On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 16:40 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Anyway, for me all fonts are totally fine with medium hinting, so I'd
> be way happier with it because I could use microsoft fonts in the
> thinner version.
>
> People who explicitely set a font hinting style usually know what
> they are
Thanks a lot for your explanations!
Caolán McNamara wrote:
That then doesn't give stable positions for text so they change
relatively depending on zoom or when the contents of the text change as
you type. aka "dancing characters" or "wiggling text"
I can see that indeed using my recompiled
On Sun, 2023-11-12 at 14:28 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could someone working on the font code at least give a statement why
> CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_MEDIUM/FULL is forced to SLIGHT if
> bSubpixelPositioning is true? Why aren't user allowed to use
> MEDIUM/FULL style anymore?
Slight/Light
Hi,
could someone working on the font code at least give a statement why
CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_MEDIUM/FULL is forced to SLIGHT if bSubpixelPositioning
is true? Why aren't user allowed to use MEDIUM/FULL style anymore?
Thanks a lot!
cu,
Frank
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Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web:
Hi,
Caolán McNamara wrote:
Not quite, we override these via cairo_font_options_set_* in some
cases, so you might be looking for
vcl/unx/generic/gdi/cairotextrender.cxx
and CairoTextRender::DrawTextLayout wrt CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_SLIGHT
thanks for pointing me to cairotextrender.cxx! I've analyzed
On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 14:24 +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> But from looking at the libreoffice source code, it seems that it
> just relies on the settings it finds in fontconfig.
Not quite, we override these via cairo_font_options_set_* in some
cases, so you might be looking for
Hi,
while trying to debug the problem described in
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157348
further I'd like to understand how font rendering w.r.t. hinting
is done in libreoffice for Linux.
In 7.4.7, Microsoft fonts like Arial are shown with thin lines when
