Comment 56 for bug 54776
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| Gert Kulyk (gkulyk) wrote Re: [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 | #56 |
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To Xavier:
The new libfreetype does not enhance font rendering in a whole (the fonts still are blurry), but fixes some issues related to broken charakters when using subpixel rendering and autohinter (this does not only affect OOo). That means e.g. that 'ö' has now two dots, the 'A' or 'x' is not bolder than the rest etc.. Since openoffice is always using autohinter, it is for now unusable having subpixel-rendering enabled.
There is, like now, a difference using the grayscale and the subpixel setting.
What I meant in my comment: OOo needs to respect "native" and "autohinter" setting (bug #34544), if this is not trivial, libfreetype has to be fixed for getting a better autohinter using subpixel-rendering (what it should anyway). If neither of the issues is fixed, any change Matthias applies to the sources can't be rated good or bad, because other issues are causing that the rendering at a whole is not ideal.