[Bug 1062903] New: cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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            Bug ID: 1062903
           Summary: cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF
                    engine (i.e. regression)
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 20
         Component: abattis-cantarell-fonts
          Assignee: ccecchi(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: pierre-bugzilla(a)ossman.eu
        QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: ccecchi(a)redhat.com, fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org



Bug 995643 was filed against freetype for hinting Cantarell very poorly. That
was closed as NOTABUG. But that doesn't change the fact that Cantarell is still
fuzzy, which is a major issue for a UI font. So let's try filing this bug the
other way around. :)

Playing around with ftview suggests that forced auto hinting gives back roughly
the same hinting as in Fedora 19. So could we have that as a fontconfig bandaid
until better hinting information is available in the font itself?

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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Pierre Ossman <ossman(a)cendio.se&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |ossman(a)cendio.se



--- Comment #1 from Pierre Ossman <ossman(a)cendio.se&gt; ---
Any updates on this? The problem is still present in the current packages.

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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--- Comment #2 from Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla(a)ossman.eu&gt; ---
This is the workaround I have in place:

$ cat /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-cantarell.conf 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
        <match target="font">
          <test name="family">
             <string>Cantarell</string>
          </test>
          <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
             <bool>true</bool>
          </edit>
        </match>
</fontconfig>

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla(a)ossman.eu&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Version|20                          |21



--- Comment #3 from Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla(a)ossman.eu&gt; ---
Still a problem in Fedora 21.

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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--- Comment #5 from Pierre Ossman <ossman(a)cendio.se&gt; ---
Duplicate of bug 1035486?

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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
        Last Closed|                            |2015-12-01 22:08:35



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[Bug 1062903] cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression)

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