Comment 53 for bug 54776
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| Gert Kulyk (gkulyk) wrote Re: [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 | #53 |
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After playing around with some more settings, I tried to compile a new libfreetype using cvs version. After compilation I found out, that at least the issues concerning spacing and breakage of some characters with lcd-sub-pixel rendering enabled vanished.
OOo still uses only autohinter, but autohinter seems to be broken for setups using lcd-sub-pixel rendering with ubuntu libfreetype. The cvs-version of libfreetype obviously fixes this.
The fonts in ooo are still a bit blurry with new libfreetype, but they are rendered correctly using Edgy ooo(not new packages from people.ubuntu.com, these I have still to test with new freetype).
That indicates that libfreetype in ubuntu is buggy, apart from troubles with ooo. Can anyone confirm this? If so, we need to fix libfreetype first before the ooo-thing may be fixed.