[Fontconfig] Font quality degradation

James H. Cloos Jr. cloos at jhcloos.com
Thu Aug 21 04:05:16 EST 2003


>>>>> "Michal" == Michal Kochanowicz <michal at michal.waw.pl> writes:

Michal> After migrating from: XFree86-4.3 (using included
Michal> libraries) to: XFree86-4.3.99.10 fontconfig-2.2.90
Michal> xrender-0.8.3 xft-2.1.2

Michal> I've noticed significant loss of font quality. There are two
Michal> screenshots which demonstrate this:

Did you also change freetype?  This could be due either to a change
in the autohinting, or a switch from instructed to autohinted.
(Presuming that is a ttf font in the screenshots.)

-JimC





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