I recently updated the whole xorg-x11-6.8* to the new modular xorg-x11-7.0-r1, following the Gentoo xorg migration guide. Freetype was updated from 2.1.9-r1 to 2.1.10-r2. Apparently this messed up my font hinting. I hardly changed anything to my config (at least nothing relevant). I also didn't touch my gnome setting (set to complete rgb hinting). I used to have for the letter "l" like five stacked black pixels, but now columns of yellow pixels were added to the sides, making text look very yellowish and blurry and difficult for my eyes. Changing rgb to the other three sequences in gnome couldn't make it better. See for screenshots: http://http://users.skynet.be/pjvh/yellow.png showing the problem and users.skynet.be/pjvh/yellow2.png with problem solved (where the problem was solved by downgrading freetype again). The problem can be fixed temporarily by downgrading to 2.1.9-r1. I had a discussion on this problem with James Cloos. This is what came out of it: Apparently in the higher version the bytecode interpreter is disabled for some reason. James Cloos advised the following (and my answers are included as well): " > Also, try this set of four commands and compare each to the fonts you > got with the two versions of freetype: > > :; for a in false true > do for h in false true > do echo "Trying hinting=${h}:autohint=${a}" > read > xfd -fa "DejaVu Serif:pixelsize=16:hinting=${h}:autohint=${a}" & > done > done > > (If you use tcsh or zsh you'll have to translate or do it manually; > hit enter after each prompt to get the next window.) For freetype-2.1.10-r2: Your plan doesn't seem to work. I get four times the same, namely the bad font that was my problem (while running freetype-2.1.10-r2 so the bad font was present in other new windows as well) For freetype-2.1.9-r1 there is a difference: Trying hinting=false:autohint=false the bad font that was my problem Trying hinting=true:autohint=false the perfect font Trying hinting=false:autohint=true the bad font that was my problem Trying hinting=true:autohint=true the perfect font > > If the interpreter is enabled, you should have stems that are one > pixel wide with hinting=true and autohint=false. For freetype-2.1.9-r1 from here on: Correct > With autohint= > true you should see stems that are two pixels wide. Not when hinting=true too. > > The tuples hinting=true:autohint=true and hinting=false:autohint=true > should be identical. Not correct > > Right now hinting=false:autohint=false isn't working for me; it is > doing the same as hinting=true:autohint=false. (Which is the default.) > It should of course show the glyphs w/o and kind of hinting. Not so here " I am using the bindist flag. As I understand it this should ENABLE the bytecode interpreter. James Cloos however thinks this explains my problem: using the bindist flag DISABLED the bytecode interpreter. So not using that flag would solve my problem. However there is another issue: Without it (freetype-2.1.10-r2) I get a different font alltogether (reminds me of Helvetica) that seems to be properly hinted.
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(In reply to comment #0) > I am using the bindist flag. As I understand it this should ENABLE the bytecode > interpreter. Wrong. > James Cloos however thinks this explains my problem: using the > bindist flag DISABLED the bytecode interpreter. So not using that flag would > solve my problem. Correct. USE=bindist uses the autohinter. Actually, pretty easy to check: <snip> use bindist || append-flags -DTT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER </snip> Don't see any bug here, you've apparently misunderstood the flag.
Possibly there's no bug, but: - It might be useful to alert other users in the same situation as me. - Why does everything work with 2.1.9-r1 with bindist enabled? - Why am I not getting the expected result when I disable bindist with 2.1.10-r2?
I see no bug here, sorry. And since you've been the first to report this since the introduction of the bindist flag several years ago, I think alerting users is unneeded.
With freetype-2.1.10-r2 without bindist (and idem freetype-2.1.9-r1 without bindist) I get the font as shown on schermafdruk.png. I was mistaken, the font is still Bitstream Vera Sans and not a different font, however the lines are thinner and the font is a little wider. Probably there will be a perfectly clear explanation for this related to patents/bindist... With freetype-2.1.9-r1 with bindist I get the font as shown on schermafdruk-1.png. I'm used to and prefer the latter. If this is not a bug (quite likely, you're probably right, now my bindist enable/disable mixup is clear), then what am I missing here? Thanks again
I forgot: the images can be found at http://users.skynet.be/pjvh/Schermafdruk.png and http://users.skynet.be/pjvh/Schermafdruk-1.png .
The closest I can get to my old font is by lowering my screen's dpi from 116 to 115 or 114. The new font is thus slightly bigger. But it still seems to be a little bit different. If you look at the text "600 MHz" at the right bottom of my screenshots you'll see that the "6" now has a bit more curl at the right top. Has the Bitstream font or its rendering been changed? How was I supposed to learn about this? I checked the changelog and the freetype website but found nothing yet. Thanks
Once more : this is NOT a bug. The bytecode interpreter is an ongoing work and has a different look over time. I can only say that the rendering of the actual font in schermafrduk-1.png is worse than in schermafdruk.png and as such there has been an obvious improvement in rendering of some characters and consistency between the letters. The only downside I see is a few kerning glitches, but that may be the fonts fault. Sorry, we cannot possibly help you here.
*** Bug 167632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
u can fix it ... build a chroot like descibed here .... http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/emul/ build freetype with -bindist and quickpkg it ... and replace the one from the xlibs ebuild .... works nice :) ... greets
ment this package app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs /usr/portage/app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-10.0.ebuild
