freetype render issues with "2" and "s"

[Markus Schulz]

Binary package hint: libfreetype6

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

libfreetype6:
  Installed: 2.3.7-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.3.7-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.7-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The '2' and the 's' renders weird... if you follow the ClanLib install it works like expected... see screen shot left is original Ubuntu freetype... right is fresh freetype. Btw to test I used ClanLib 0.9 SVN 2263 and the Font example from the Example folder.

Quote from http://clanlib.org/docs/clanlib-0.9.0/overview/install-linux-gcc.html :
The standard freetype 2.3.7 package that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has very poor quality. It is recommended to reinstall the package from the source code as follows:
 (from: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ )
 tar -xvzf freetype-2.3.7.tar.gz
 cd freetype-2.3.7
 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 make
 sudo make install

This fix the issues!!! And it makes the overall look much nicer...

[Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch)]

This screen shot it larger...

[rombust (rombust)]

I do not think that this is not a bug with ubuntu, but either an error by myself or Freetype2. By changing the Freetype hinting from FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL to FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT it works

It now works in ClanLib 2.0.3 (SVN)