Turn off autohinting for Thai
Bug #35305 reported by
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Matthias Klose | ||
Bug Description
Since most free Thai fonts are badly hinted, and the autohinting just makes it worse looking than without, it's better turned off.
Compare the screenshot with autohinting:
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and without:
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You can see the glyph heights are more uniformed when autohinting is turned off.
So, under th locale, where Thai message would be heavily used, the environment SAL_AUTOHINTING
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | nobody → mvo |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | mvo → doko |
| status: | Unconfirmed → In Progress |
Revision history for this message
| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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fixed in openoffice.org (2.0.2-2ubuntu2)