Ubuntu
poppler package

  1. Bug #80921
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 80921

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In , Alexander Monakov (amonakov) wrote :

> Alexander, your patch is interesting. Which is the Cairo version you are using?
> If it’s greater than 1.7.4, then I think the Cairo surface will use the
> internal intra-pixel method for LCD filtering. This is clearly worse than what
> I have shown above because one cannot really mate the intra-pixel method with
> light hinting due to excessive color bleeding. See the image
>

Right, I should have mentioned I'm assuming patched cairo. Right now I'm using 1.8.4 with, IIUC, ubuntu's lcd filtering patches. On the content I read there's no color bleeding.

I'm also seeing the problem mentioned in comment #15: some embedded truetype fonts are not subpixel-antialiased.