[Devel] inaccurate letter y-position

[Stefan Koch]

Hello,

since changing from freetype 2.1.8 to 2.1.9 I discovered an inaccuracy 
in the y-positioning of single letters when the patented or unpatended 
hinting is activated. The effect is obviously recognizable - so I 
suppose it could be a fault.
Unfortunately I did not found any reports about this in the news 
archives nor in the web.
According the libfreetype's documentation it seems that the usage has 
not been changed. So I'm looking forward to receive any information from 
this list that would help to solve the positioning problem.

I was able to reproduce the effect also with this example program:
-  http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/example1.c

These are two of the regarding fonts (all TrueType [*.ttf]):
- Arial Narrow Bold
- Futura Light Condensed

Environment:
ix86/debian-linux

Regards,
S.Koch