Bug#385798: openoffice.org: font hinting still does not work with the current version of libfreetype
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:50:18PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Will enable this in the next 2.1 upload (2.1~rc2-2)
>
> Andreas: Sorry, but this is too risky to add to 2.0.4 currently (even at
> the time this bug was initially reported and the patches pointed out.
> See upstreams comment. Too much risk for a (imho) minor bug, It doesn't
> affect functionality, it just makes the thing a bit less good looking.
Perhaps, you still have certain misunderstanding of the impact of this
font hinting issue. To make it clear I have made a couple of screenshots.
I use msttcorefonts.
http://users.tkk.fi/~stas/new_freetype.png
http://users.tkk.fi/~stas/old_freetype.png
The only difference is that in the second case OO has been started with
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/sarge-libfreetype.so.6.3.5
It seems that I will have to keep this old freetype library at hands for
quite some time.
These are my local fonconfig settings:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file to configure font access -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Prefered fonts
-->
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Verdana</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Courier New</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<!--
Turn on hinting
-->
<match target="font">
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
</match>
<!--
Turn off antialiasing for small fonts
-->
<match target="font">
<test qual="any" name="size" compare="less">
<double>16</double>
</test>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
--
Stanislav
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