[Bug 1051689] New: Regression in font rendering clarity

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051689

Bug ID: 1051689
           Summary: Regression in font rendering clarity
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 20
         Component: freetype
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          Reporter: [e-mail]
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Description of problem: Font rendering changed in Fedora 20 (freetype 2.5.0)
and is worse, IMHO, than previous Fedora releases.

freetype 2.4.11 (F19): http://i.imgur.com/TiAaFzX.png
freetype 2.5.0  (F20): http://i.imgur.com/vyCUUUX.png

Both images are from a F20 box. The problem is not isolated to LibreOffice and
affects every application.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freetype-2.5.0-4.fc20

[Bug 1051689] Regression in font rendering clarity

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051689

Marek Kašík  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2014-01-13 06:41:50

--- Comment #1 from Marek Kašík  ---
This was an intentional change. Freetype's upstream decided to disable the old
CFF engine by default in 2.5.0. It was replaced by the new engine written by
Google and Adobe.

See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-05/msg00061.html,
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-06/msg00027.html and
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-05/msg00000.html.

Regards

Marek