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Bug 31347 - freetype-2.1.5 is out
Summary: freetype-2.1.5 is out
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: foser (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-10-17 06:22 UTC by Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-02-15 14:19 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
ebuild (freetype-2.1.5.ebuild,1.47 KB, text/plain)
2003-11-10 16:52 UTC, Ken Deeter
Details
patch for cjk auto hinting (freetype-2.1.5-autohint-cjkfonts-20031105.patch,64.29 KB, patch)
2003-11-10 16:53 UTC, Ken Deeter
Details | Diff

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Description Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-17 06:22:29 UTC
Freetype 2.1.5 has been out for a while now. As 2.1.4 has issues with some postscript fonts I would like to test this version. Just copying over the ebuild does not work though.
Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-17 07:13:58 UTC
i know, i have had a local ebuild for some time, only seriously lacked time
past couple of days. will see what i can do today.
Comment 2 Ken Deeter 2003-11-10 16:52:05 UTC
Attaching ebuild for 2.1.5 based on 2.1.4-r1

What I changed:

- remove the reference to the docs package as it looks like its not available
for 2.1.5 yet

- removed the 2.1.3 slighthint patch. I don't know where it comes from so
I couldn't check if there is a newer version available.

- added cjk autohinting patch from http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito which fixes
problems with autohitingting for cjk glyphs
Comment 3 Ken Deeter 2003-11-10 16:52:31 UTC
Created attachment 20553 [details]
ebuild
Comment 4 Ken Deeter 2003-11-10 16:53:27 UTC
Created attachment 20554 [details, diff]
patch for cjk auto hinting
Comment 5 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-12 01:28:34 UTC
If I'm not mistaken slighthint is a redhat invention. Probably looking at their packages should give the right patch. Without slighthinting it works too (the bytecode interpreter is better anyway (but has patent issues)), but be aware that in that case fontconfig must also be build without slighthint support
Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-22 15:52:22 UTC
ok i finally added this, without much precautions actually. Let's see if we get build breakage.

Not added the cjk patch yet.

Ken can you give some more info on what it does ? My japanese (?) isn't that great.

Does it make a difference in our default setup (autohinter is off by default) ? Does it influence rendering of non-cjk fonts ? etc,
Comment 7 Ken Deeter 2003-12-04 00:24:33 UTC
Hi, sorry, i was away for a bit.

Looks like there is an updated patch here:
http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/freetype2/2.1.5/

As far as I can tell (from the description) it affects only CJK glyphs, and has the following effects:

- improves autohinting for cjk characters. (says something about preventing the over-thinning of lines that make character strokes look unnatural)

- fixes the 'width' of certain fixed with fonts, especially the half width glyphs. I think this applies to dual-width fonts.

- For the Dynafont font series, it allows a user to turn the autohinter option on and still see characters that are legible. (doing this w/o the patch kills the output). Note: this is WITH the bytecode interpreter enabled

It also looks like he has 2.1.7 versions as well, just rename the part in the URL to 2.1.7.
Comment 8 Veiko Kukk 2003-12-06 08:55:37 UTC
It's quite awful, I switched back to 2.1.4-r1. I don't know what has changed it's not beautiful.
Comment 9 Antonio Dolcetta 2003-12-11 01:46:00 UTC
I have a problem with underscores using freetype
Comment 10 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-11 06:18:02 UTC
file another bug and be _way more_ verbose than 'it looks ugly' or 'i have a problem with underscores'.
Comment 11 Antonio Dolcetta 2003-12-11 06:48:39 UTC
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35584
Comment 12 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-15 14:19:23 UTC
Added the cjk patch to freetype-2.1.5-r1.

Sorry for the delay, got caught up in other stuff.