Re: [ft-devel] Rendering issues with xpdf (and other Linux based pdf viewers)

[Derek B. Noonburg]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:42:19 +0200 (CEST)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Btw, been wondering if something could/should be done on freetype
> > too - while we know where the broken hinting instructions came about
> > in this case, similar problem can come from a different source
> > too.  
> 
> People can always run the hinter in paranoid mode, rendering a glyph
> without hinting if an error is returned...

Can you elaborate on this?  How does one run the hinter in paranoid
mode?  I'm wondering if it would be possible/useful to do this in Xpdf
(or at least provide an option to do it).

- Derek