Bug 746920

Summary: autihinting has no effect on DejavuSansMono with freetype 2.4.6 (patch found)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alphonse Steiner <alphsteiner>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
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Description Alphonse Steiner 2011-10-18 09:44:32 UTC 
Hello, here is a summary of the problem:
- with freetype 2.4.2, DejavuSansMono is rendered normally;
- with freetype 2.4.6, DejavuSansMono and the other fonts are rendered badly (badly means here "not in the same way as with 2.4.2"): after some googling, I have found it is due to the fact that the bytecode interpreter is now enabled, and the workaround is to use autohinting:
"ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/"

This works great, but not for DejavuSansMono.
After trying freetype 2.4.5 without having any problem, I found it: it is the patch 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b0962ac34e66052ccfee7996e5468f30d4bd5a72
that is faulty.
Without it, DejavuSansMono is rendered normally using the last 2.4.6 sources and autohinting.

Regards,
Alphonse
Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2011-11-24 15:15:16 UTC 
Hi,

this is not a bug. The commit fixes a bug which was present in freetype for a long time. This was discussed here:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34507,
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?33939 and
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34156.

I'm closing this as a duplicate of #752538.

Regards

Marek

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 752538 ***