Re: gnustep-back font display broken on cairo

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 08.08.2019 um 21:39 schrieb Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>:
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>> Am 04.08.2019 um 23:48 schrieb Riccardo Mottola via Gnustep-dev 
>> <address@hidden>:
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>> On 8/2/19 6:06 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>>> I would not like to revert this change even though I agree with you that 
>>> pull requests this big are bad. The overall changes here are good and in 
>>> most cases we see no issues with them. As for your specific setting, did 
>>> you try to run with the property "GSFontHinting" set to the value 17? This 
>>> should switch back to the old behaviour for font hinting. If this does not 
>>> help you should try to revert part of the changes. This is easier as it 
>>> seems. Most of the changes in this pull request deal with font names and 
>>> weights. That is irrelevant for the font displaying and you may just ignore 
>>> those changes. Which leaves you with less than a handful of interesting 
>>> changes to look into.
>>> 
>>> That is currently all I can say as I am away from my computer.
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>> if I set the value to 17, Ink will hang when I open the "test" file I 
>> prepared (but not other files).
>> 
>> Of course, not only Ink, other applications will hang... e.g. GNUMail when 
>> displaying a Mail.
> 
> Sorry fr taking so long to reply. I tried with the test file you send me 
> privately some time ago and when setting the value 17, it still works fine 
> for me. Could you please provide me with a stack trace of the hanging 
> process? As this isn’t happening for me, nor to anybody else on the mailing 
> list. I would expect that it is something on your computers. maybe a corrupt 
> font?
> 
> Did you try to strip down more of the merged pull request to see which part 
> is causing this issue?

Oops, I might have miscalculated the old value. It should be 33 not 17. And if 
this doesn’t help either, try to revert all the changes in CairoFontInfo.m