[Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

[gldickens3]

Hello jbicha,

I am not running Kubuntu but I am running KDE Plasma 5 and Qt apps on
several OpenSUSE installations. On my Ubuntu installation I am running
Gnome Shell. As an FYI, I maintain a freetype2 repository with subpixel
rendering enabled for OpenSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. Like most of the
other Linux desktop OS versions, OpenSUSE does NOT enable subpixel
rendering with the FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING variable and I
provide that option with my repo. In one of my repos I use the Ubuntu
freetype2 diff file for implementing the subpixel rendering patches.
Several months ago, I noticed that the font rendering changed when I
upgraded my font repositories to freetype-2.7.1 and the difference in
the rendering was caused by the introduction of the
TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING parameter in ftoptions.h. Its not so
much that the font rendering is better or worse but that it is different
than before with freetype-2.6.X. In any event, at that time, I
discovered that the font rendering would be made exactly the same as
before by not defining TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING in freetype2
versions 2.7 and later.

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  Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

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