[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 7441] o-Umlaut "ö" to thin

[bugzilla-daemon at annarchy.freedesktop.org]

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7441





------- Comment #8 from bl.bugs at gmail.com  2007-02-08 04:21 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> I've exactly the same Problem with FC6 on two different machines - however on
> my machines the umlaut o is not only renderd too thin but also the second dot
> is missing.
> 
> I am using rgb-subpixel-antialiasing and hinting style set to "full.
> 

(oops, Denis was first in replying :-)

This is an autohinter bug, and unfortunately, we can't do anything about it.
This bug should be fixed in FreeType instead (maybe their latest package fixed
this?).

Possible options for you are probably using hintstyle "medium" if you want to
keep using the autohinter (not sure if that would work, but IIRC somebody
"fixed" it that way). Or you could enable the bytecode interpreter in FreeType
and get the only correct hinting of the font (the technology may be patented by
Apple and therefor Fedora doesn't enable it by default) -- you may need to
recompile FreeType to do that, or maybe there's an rpm somewhere.

Please report the bug to the FreeType authors.

Greetings
Ben


-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.