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Re: [ft-devel] extra pixels in fonts
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] extra pixels in fonts |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:49:16 +0200 (CEST) |
> [This was originally sent to address@hidden, but I never got
> a response, so I'm posting it again here.]
address@hidden no longer exists.
> I am finding that tahoma.ttf renders at 8pt with some
> annoying extra pixels on my Gentoo 2005.1 and SuSE 9.2
> systems. [...]
This has been recently discussed at great detail in the freetype-devel
list -- please look up the archive.
In short, we believe that this is a `bad feature' of the Windows
rendering engine in combination with `bad coding' in the tahoma font,
and that we can't emulate this behaviour. It is very unfortunate that
such a popular font is affected. BTW, it would be trivial to patch
tahoma.ttf to get the right behaviour for both Windows and FreeType --
you just have to change three bytes within the font...
Werner