Bug 1051689 - Regression in font rendering clarity
Summary: Regression in font rendering clarity
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freetype
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-10 21:43 UTC by Michael Cronenworth
Modified: 2014-01-13 11:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-13 11:41:50 UTC
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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
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