[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

2018-01-05 Thread gldickens3
Hi Martin, Thanks for the tip! Defining the FREETYPE_PROPERTIES as you suggested in /etc/environment did indeed disable hinting and renders the same crisper fonts as was in earlier versions of Ubuntu. Personally, I still prefer to disable hinting in the source code but your suggestion works just

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

2017-12-01 Thread gldickens3
Hello jbicha, I am not running Kubuntu but I am running KDE Plasma 5 and Qt apps on several OpenSUSE installations. On my Ubuntu installation I am running Gnome Shell. As an FYI, I maintain a freetype2 repository with subpixel rendering enabled for OpenSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. Like most of the ot

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

2017-11-30 Thread gldickens3
Adding the attached patch to the diff file will cause freetype-2.8 to render fonts exactly like in earlier Ubuntu versions (such as freetype-2.4.X, 2.5.X and 2.6.X). ** Patch added: "Patch to disable #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

2017-11-30 Thread gldickens3
In the first line of third paragraph of my prior post I meant to say "(commented out)" instead of "(uncommented)" So, that line should read: "This needs to be undefined (commented out) in order for freetype-2.7 and 2.8 to render fonts identically to prior versions of Ubuntu freetype (freetype-2.6.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

2017-11-30 Thread gldickens3
One of the primary differences in freetype-2.8 and prior Ubuntu versions of freetype is the introduction of TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING in /include/freetype/config/ftoption.h in freetype-2.7.X and later. The default value is: #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING 2 This needs to be und