Re: [ft-devel] Turning off stem darkening by default until all drivers support it?

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks! Telling people to switch to slight hinting will be much easier than
> telling them to mess with fontconfig.

I suppose we still have time to add the suggested LOAD flag before the
2.7 release? IMO it should:

1) Switch on stem darkening
2) Change the default LCD filter weights as recommended on
   http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_filtering.html

Is this what it should do?

As for the name...

- FT_LOAD_LINEAR (probably too vague)
- FT_LOAD_INTEND_LINEAR_ALPHA_BLENDING_AND_GAMMA_CORRECTION (probably too long)
- FT_LOAD_LINEAR_LIGHT
- FT_LOAD_LINEAR_LIGHT_BLENDING
- FT_LOAD_FOR_LINEAR_LIGHT

More bikeshedding about a good name? It should be short and unambiguous.


On another note, what happens if FT_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY is requested but
not compiled in? Does it fall back to NONE or DEFAULT?

Disturbingly, I still get the legacy filter (which sucks) unless I'm
explicitly requesting another in fontconfig. I can probably blame
Cairo.