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Re: [ft] font size issue since 2.2


From: Łukasz Mierzwa
Subject: Re: [ft] font size issue since 2.2
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:08:13 +0200
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Tuesday 03 of April 2007 13:12:22 Łukasz Mierzwa napisał(a):
> 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).

Opera with system freetype 2.3.2 renders fonts smaller as 2.1.10 freetype 
does, I'm starting to think that it's DPI or something like that issue.

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