[poppler] [PATCH] Fix Splash back-end FT_Load_Glyph flags

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 3 d'octubre de 2009, Benoit Jacob va escriure:
> 2009/10/3 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> > A Dissabte, 3 d'octubre de 2009, Benoit Jacob va escriure:
> >> 2009/10/2 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 at gmail.com>:
> >> > Yes, as that is the default on openSUSE. However, since you asked, I
> >> > wanted to check that. Here is my my method so you can check that it is
> >> > good:
> >> > I edit the file /etc/fonts/suse-hinting.conf, and I change this line,
> >> >
> >> >       <match target="font">
> >> >               <edit name="autohint">
> >> >                       <bool>true</bool>
> >> >               </edit>
> >> >       </match>
> >> >
> >> > to change the value to "false" or "true", and then I run as root:
> >> >
> >> >  $ fc-cache
> >>
> >> *Erm*
> >>
> >> Re-thinking about this, I am not sure at all that this makes any sense!
> >>
> >> Also --- even if the autohinter is enabled, what if the font has its
> >> own native hinting,won't that override it...
> >
> > Yes unless you use FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT that indicates that the
> > auto-hinter is preferred over the font's native hinter.
> 
> Ah, good idea. I tried, here's the result:
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.ca/lh/photo/WrTdIByZUl1opX9Mt103OA?feat=directlink
> 
> It looks different from all I got before. That shows that the
> "original" version before was actually native hinting. So what really
> looks broken was native hinting for TeX fonts.

Any chance you can open a bug against the TeX fonts package?

Albert

> 
> Now, considering that new screenshot, I think that it still doesn't
> look as good as the non-hinted version, but I can agree that it's now
> a matter of taste.
> 
> > But anyway i think the option
> > should be hinting (either native or auto) vs no-hinting.
> 
> I tried to think, but I really don't have an opinion here. As long as
> no-hinting is the default, I'm happy.
> 
> Benoit
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