The FreeType Project - Bugs: bug #32671, Font rendering looks slightly...
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bug #32671: Font rendering looks slightly worse from 2.4.2 to 2.4.4
Submitter: | None | ||
Submitted: | Thu 03 Mar 2011 06:48:36 PM UTC | ||
Severity: | 3 - Normal | Item Group: | Incorrect behaviour |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | wl | Open/Closed: | Closed |
Planned Release: | 2.4.5 |
Thu 10 Mar 2011 04:47:45 AM UTC, comment #4: |
Werner LEMBERG <wl> |
Thu 10 Mar 2011 04:34:33 AM UTC, comment #3: I can confirm that this seems to fix it.
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Anonymous |
Mon 07 Mar 2011 04:46:56 AM UTC, comment #2: This has now been fixed (sortof) in the git repository. Please test. |
Werner LEMBERG <wl> |
Fri 04 Mar 2011 05:51:36 AM UTC, comment #1: I can confirm your observation. It's a change in the smooth rasterizer, and I've written a mail to freetype-devel, asking the authors of this change to check whether it is bad luck that verdana looks inferior, or whether there is a real problem.
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Werner LEMBERG <wl> |
Thu 03 Mar 2011 06:48:36 PM UTC, original submission:
It seems the font rendering seemed to get slightly worse from freetype version 2.4.2 to version 2.4.4. The text looks less sharp, more faint. Some arcs seem to have much less contrast to the background. Other strokes seem to get bolder.
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Anonymous |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2011-03-10 | None | Attached File | - | Added xchat-libfreetype6-2.4.6-my.png, #22871 | |
2011-03-07 | wl | Status | Confirmed | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
Planned Release | None | 2.4.5 | |||
2011-03-04 | wl | Status | None | Confirmed | |
Assigned to | None | wl | |||
2011-03-03 | None | Attached File | - | Added xchat-libfreetype6-2.4.2-2.1.png, #22831 | |
Attached File | - | Added xchat-libfreetype6-2.4.4-1.png, #22832 |
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