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Re: Latest libfreetype borkage



Tom Badran wrote:

> Just upgraded to libfreetype6-2.1.3-8 and its looking good. However it doesn't
> render true type fonts properly when they are bold. For instance with arial it 
> renders they glyphs wide with some messy artifacts (especially on lowercase 
> w/v) and completely screws the kerning. Development is a nice word to show 
> what its like.

That's funny... to me, the -8 package seems much worse than -7 even with
non-bold fonts. I downgraded and marked the packages "hold". Shaya Potter
also mentioned that she was not happy with the -8 package's renderings.

Craig

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