Re: [ft-devel] Time for a new FreeType release

[Chris Liddell]

On 02/04/18 16:04, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> We're currently experiencing a problem with FreeType 2.9 in
>> conjunction with Ghostscript.  Some TrueType glyphs are rendering as
>> if the hinting is broken, or points are being moved/dropped.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
>> If your projected timescale is later than this week that's probably
>> OK for us.  I hope we can at least isolate the problem this week and
>> then you can decide whether to delay releasing until we can propose
>> a good fix.
> 
> OK, will wait until you report.  There is no hurry :-)
> 
> And thanks in advance for your investigations!

Hi Werner,

Well, the good news is that the corrupted glyph rendering is resolved in
the current freetype.git HEAD code.

I found a couple of other changes in the output, but one is a (badly!)
broken font, and the other is almost certainly unique to the way
Ghostscript uses Freetype, and I can address that in our code.

So from a Ghostscript perspective, the current code looks good.

Chris