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
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 ***