Re: [ft] : Microsoft YaHei UI font can't be displayed well

[datao zhang]

Hi werner:
please refer to attachment for more test case. You can see how it looks in windows. Text size: 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 px.
 
Br,
Dean
 

> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 06:58:49 +0200
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> Subject: Re: [ft]: Microsoft YaHei UI font can't be displayed well
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> > when i test the freetype 2.5.3 with microsoft YaHei UI font in 12,
> > 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 pixel size, i find Freetype engine can't
> > handle it correctly in some text size, ex: 12, 14, 24 px size. I
> > have enabled TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and
> > TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING. I add an attachment here. The
> > character "据" （unicode: U+636E）used as test case in attachment.
>
> Yes, it looks strange (I used version 6.02 of msyh.ttf for testing).
> It seems to be a problem with the subpixel hinting code, since results
> are much better with classic hinting (toggle key `H' in the ftview
> demo program).
>
> To help in debugging the issue: Can you provide images for the same
> pixel sizes rendered with MS Windows? And if possible, please provide
> similar renderings for character U+636F also.
>
>
> Werner

msyh_ui_Freetype&Windows.png
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