Bad font rendering / hinting since patch

[Bill Spitzak]

The results you don’t like are clearly the intention of the patch.

It it making the letters be different so that the spacing between them letters is less irregular. The irregular spacing can easily be seen in the sample screenshots. It is possible to have both but this requires the letters to be further apart than they should be and makes it not possible to get WYSIWYG.

> On Jan 22, 2025, at 4:07 AM, Andreas Franz <andreas.franz at sicherungstechnik-franz.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> I´m new here - and my first post is a request to revert some older patch ;-):
>  
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/commit/e4a79db0108be6a2b06dfce51a44bcbdead66ebd
>  
> This patch causes a very bad rendering on Libeoffice if anti-aliasing is switched off and hinting is on - and even if anti-aliasing is on, it is much worse, compared to libcairo 1.16.
> Devs of LO say "it´s not our bug" - and self-compiled 1.18 without this patch shows, they are right?!?
>  
> See here: 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164290
> and
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156200
>  
> Maybe anyone could fix this issue? Any ideas?
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