[Bug 1469712] font antialiasing/hinting is not working on Fedora 26
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469712
Marek Kašík <mkasik(a)redhat.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |CLOSED
Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE
Last Closed| |2017-07-25 05:01:24
--- Comment #6 from Marek Kašík <mkasik(a)redhat.com> ---
This is the same problem as in the bug #1470509. Freetype has changed default
hinting engine in 2.7 from v35 to v40. The change is more apparent when the
antialiasing is off. You can reproduce it in e.g. ftview by running "ftview -m
"This is a test text" 19 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf",
turning
off antialiasing by pressing "a" and then you can switch between the hinting
modes by pressing "H".
Upstream won't change it back and so we won't too.
If you prefer the older hinting engine, you can select it by setting
environment variable "FREETYPE_PROPERTIES" to
"truetype:interpreter-version=35"
in e.g. ~/.bash_profile.
I'm closing this as notabug since the change is intentional (and looking at the
freetype mailing list, they know about the visual change, also see
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html for more info
about the engine).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1470509 ***
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