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bug #56140: OTF/CFF conts no longer hinted horizontally

Submitter:  Pierre Ossman <cendossm>
Submitted:  Mon 15 Apr 2019 11:54:39 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour
Status:  Wont Fix Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Planned Release:  None

Mon 15 Apr 2019 02:03:29 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Sure, you can try switching between Adobe and FreeType engines:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=cff:hinting-engine=freetype
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=cff:hinting-engine=adobe

Alexei Podtelezhnikov <podtelez>
Group Member
Mon 15 Apr 2019 12:52:37 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I can sympathise with the new default, so this is not a request to just revert things. It is however a request to make this configurable, just like the TTF engine.

Pierre Ossman <cendossm>
Mon 15 Apr 2019 12:40:28 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This change happened long time ago to a broad acclaim. I understand that you personally may not like it. Other people, majority of them, like it. They enjoy better glyph spacing and use subpixel rendering to improve contrast.

Alexei Podtelezhnikov <podtelez>
Group Member
Mon 15 Apr 2019 11:54:39 AM UTC, original submission:  

Originally reported to Red Hat here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545149

I upgraded from Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 and all of a sudden OTF/CFF fonts such as Cantarell are no longer hinted horizontally, making them appear blurry and out of focus. This would be an upgrade from Freetype 2.7.1 to 2.8.

A similar change was done for TTF fonts previously, but that could be reverted by setting "FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35".

Is there a similar setting hidden for this latest change? The normal font hinting settings have no effect on this.

Pierre Ossman <cendossm>

 

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    2019-04-15 podtelez StatusNone Wont Fix
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