[Bug 891457] uneven emulated Bold/Slant for subsetted large fonts

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891457

--- Comment #21 from Adrian Johnson <ajohnson at redneon.com> ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> Werner suggested trying to reproduce similar problems if possible with
> ftview, which can do font effects on display. But I am not hopeful in that
> since it looks like the problem does not affect bitmap-based output.

I tried ftview but it didn't seem to provide any way to view outlines.

I had another idea. Replace the cairo_show_text with cairo_text_path followed
by cairo_fill. This will create paths from the text then fill the paths. This
results in correct output.

> I haven't figured out where/how cairo write fonts yet...

It has a number of subsetters as well as the ability to create CFF or type 1
fonts. The easiest to understand is cairo-type1-fallback.c which generates
fallback fonts for PostScript.

Since cairo_text_path produced the correct output the next idea I had was to
try changing the size of the font outlines that cairo-type1-fallback requests.
At line 105 the matrix size is set to 1000 since Type 1 fonts have an EM grid
size of 1000. I changed this to 500 and the output was smaller but correct. I
tried some different values. 800 works. 900 fails. So somewhere between a font
size of 800 and 900 FreeType starts producing incorrect output for some glyphs
with synthetic bold enabled.

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