Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:52:35 +0200 Tassilo Horn wrote:

> David Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi David,
>
>>>>> IIUC subpixel anti-aliasing is indeed not enabled.
>>>>
>>>> It is, at least in the first screenshot (you can see the color
>>>> artifacts when you magnify the image).  But I suspect it's set to
>>>> BGR and not RGB (as most LCDs require).
>>>
>>> No, it is and was set to rgb:
>>
>> Ah, ok, my fault when adding colors in my head :)
>
> No problem.  What's really strange is that today everything looks much
> better.  The normal font looks sharp, there're very few bold chars and I
> cannot reproduce the bug with the combined chars in UTF-8-demo.txt.
>
> Looking at the ChangeLogs I cannot find a change that might have fixed
> the problems.  Well, yesterday was a bad day anyway -- weather, mood,
> work...  Probably I screwed emacs up mentally. ;-)

IMHO it's great improvement when you disable the autohinter (requires
that you compiled freetype with -DFUCK_PATENTS).  Anyway I played around
a bit with this "new technology" and think it looks incredible ugly
compared to the good old bitmap fonts.

David