[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 26505] 1 and 4 numerals in Serif 12pt are

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26505





--- Comment #2 from Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com>  2010-02-10 05:47:58 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> If you use the Freetype bytecode interpreter (which uses the
> font hinting) this will go away.

Um, as in the bytecode interpreter that is switched on [or at least not
commented out] by distros like Ubuntu? If so, that's what I'm running at the
moment.

My understanding from some long chats in #gnome-hackers about this is that the
autohinter is not being used on Ubuntu at "hintslight" and that the bytecode
interpreter is shipped by them. Sorry I don't have a Fedora box to compare
against.

Attempting forcing the autohinter off with .fonts.conf as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
    <test name="family">
        <string>DejaVu Serif</string>
    </test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
        <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
        <const>hintslight</const>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
        <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

do not have any effect (but turning hinting off entirely this way does work, so
I believe I have the syntax right).

So presumably I can report that the problem is present in the face of the
bytecode interpeter?

Or are you talking about something else, or is there something more drastic I
have to do to turn the freetype bytecode interpreter on?

Thanks for looking in on this,

AfC


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