Re: [ft] font size issue since 2.2

[Łukasz Mierzwa]

Tuesday 03 of April 2007 13:09:02 Łukasz Mierzwa napisał(a):
> Tuesday 03 of April 2007 10:47:44 Werner LEMBERG napisał(a):
> > > I'm running gentoo box and I have UI font set to Lucida Grande
> > > (size 9), every freetype version since 2.2 renders it bigger that
> > > 2.1.10, other fonts seems to be unaffected so this appears as a bug
> > > for me but I would like someone to verify if it's a bug or a correct
> > > behaviour of freetype.
> >
> > Hmm, the monospaced font in the lower-right window is bigger too.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't have time to analyze this in detail.  Please verify
> > with the ftview program that the font is indeed rendered at a larger
> > size.  And please check whether both versions have the bytecode
> > compiler activated (this is, whether the
> > TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER option is set).
> >
> >
> >     Werner
>
> I compiled freetype 2.1.10 and 2.3.2 by hand with
> TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER, I'm sure it was set in gentoo as I
> checked ebuilds, after that I build 2 ft2demos, each for corresponding
> freetype version, it seems to me that ft2demos are linked staticly to
> freetype during build so they should show different view if 2.1.10 and
> 2.3.2 would render my fonts in different way but I can't find any
> difference in how my fonts look in 2.1.10 or 2.3.2 ftview, but if I
> LD_PRELOAD=libfreetype.so.2.3.2 {gtk-demo,kcalc} fonts are bigger, maybe
> it's {gtk+,qt} toolkit that is drawing my fonts bigger with newer freetype.
> I compiled qt 4.2.3 and I run it with system 2.1.10 freetype, and with
> LD_PRELOAD 2.3.2, fonts are little different (horizontal sizes are
> different with some letters) but sizes are the same.
> Maybe I need to recompile gtk+ after upgrading freetype?
>
> screenshots:
> http://pcserwis.net/img/qt4-freetype-2.1.10.png
> http://pcserwis.net/img/qt4-freetype-2.3.2.png

Edit: qt 4.2.3 was compiled with 2.1.10 in my system (if it matters).

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