Bug 127872 – freetype-2.10 renders artifical bold font improperly.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2006-03-28 09:50:16 UTC]

I'll give the screenshorts for comparision.

[Comment 1 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2006-03-28 09:51:17 UTC]

Created attachment 83309 [details]
screenshot-improper.png

The error part has been marked with red line.

[Comment 2 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2006-03-28 09:52:07 UTC]

Created attachment 83310 [details]
screenshot-fixed.png

[Comment 3 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2006-03-28 09:55:13 UTC]

Created attachment 83311 [details, diff]
freetype-2.10-bold.patch

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2006-03-28 11:09:08 UTC]

the effect is clear, what do I need to reproduce this ? Is this just with non-latin characters, if not can you provide a screenshot with latin chars ?

[Comment 5 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2006-03-29 06:17:41 UTC]

The bug can only be reproduced when rendering a char without a real bold font for the corresponding charset in the system(then pseudo font is enabled). Since most systems have bold fonts for latin charset, while most fonts for Asian lanaguages have no real bold fonts, so the bug can be easily reproduced for Asian charsets but is hard to reproduce it with latin chars.

And the bug has been fixed by upstream, see: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/freetype/freetype2/src/base/ftsynth.c?r1=1.27&r2=1.28

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2006-06-19 14:22:30 UTC]

my excuses for the delay

added the patch to freetype-2.1.10-r1, please test.