[poppler] Wrong hinting

[Cedric Sodhi]

Hello,

I hope you don't mind that I forward your message to the list. It is
very helpful to know that someone can reproduce this!

I have two questions:

What is poppler-utls? I don't have any such package in the Gentoo
repositories (only poppler and popplerdata installed).

What do you mean it should hopefully not be caused by FreeType2 Can we
still not agree that Freetype has no saying whatsoever on fonts which
are *embedded* with the document?

Thanks very much for your reply.

Cedric

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:44:06PM +0900, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> By an old poppler-utils on Debian GNU/Linux
> (poppler-utils 0.12.2-2), I could reproduce
> your issue.
> 
> http://ompldr.org/vN2YyMA
> 
> Already there is a post proposing to upgrade
> newer poppler, I will try.
> 
> I wish if this is not caused by FreeType2.
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:19:31 +0100
> Cedric Sodhi <manday at gmx.net> wrote:
> >PS: You mentioned that you rendered it with certain specific
> >Xft-settings. Do you thereby suggest that my assumption that
> >Xft-settings do not apply to this very font, because it is embedded, is
> >wrong?
> >
> >I tried several combinations of hinting, subpixel rendering and
> >antialias options, compiled Freetype with and without the old
> >auto-hinter, and even after disabling everything, my System-fonts look
> >awful, but the font in the document remains unchanged.