[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107462] MS Gothic and MS Mincho text rendered differently at different zoom levels

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107462

--- Comment #8 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #7)
> (In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #5)
> > I see. Then I suspect the fonts has embedded bitmap strikes for certain
> > pixel sizes (many CJK fonts do) and that is what you are getting at lower
> > sizes. Try to disabled embedded bitmaps in FontConfig and see if it makes
> > any difference (the simplist way is to copy/link
> > /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf to
> > /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf and restart LibreOffice).
> 
> As harfbuzz is doing all the text rendering now, cant we set it to disable
> that feature on linux by default so others dont fall into this same trap and
> have to manually fix it at the system level.

HarfBuzz is doing text layout not rendering, we still use different libraries
to do rendering on different platforms. Also embedded bitmaps are a feature not
a bug, (some) CJK users expect it as improves rendering of CJK glyphs at
smaller point sizes.

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