Bug 1051689

Summary:	Regression in font rendering clarity
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Cronenworth <mike>
Component:	freetype	Assignee:	Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mkasik
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Description Michael Cronenworth 2014-01-10 21:43:42 UTC

Description of problem: Font rendering changed in Fedora 20 (freetype 2.5.0) and is worse, IMHO, than previous Fedora releases.

freetype 2.4.11 (F19): http://i.imgur.com/TiAaFzX.png
freetype 2.5.0  (F20): http://i.imgur.com/vyCUUUX.png

Both images are from a F20 box. The problem is not isolated to LibreOffice and affects every application.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freetype-2.5.0-4.fc20

Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2014-01-13 11:41:50 UTC

This was an intentional change. Freetype's upstream decided to disable the old CFF engine by default in 2.5.0. It was replaced by the new engine written by Google and Adobe.

See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-05/msg00061.html, http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-06/msg00027.html and http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2013-05/msg00000.html.

Regards

Marek