Re: Hinting regression in Ubuntu 23.04

possibly, but the last few people that care about non-antialiased fonts 
are probably on this email list.

I'm curious if they have motivation to make bad fonts with no hinting?  
does it somehow help when/if anti-aliasing is turned on?

-craig

On 5/4/23 06:20, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Martin, dear Craig,
>
>
> Am 04.05.23 um 15:05 schrieb Craig:
>> this was exactly my observation as well... remove fonts-liberation2. 
>> it's increasingly
>> difficult with containerization/snaps, etc.
>>
>> r,
>> -craig
>>
>> On 5/4/23 03:33, Martin van Es wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 4, 2023 9:52:43 AM CEST Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>>> I think you misremember, for the reason mentioned above – just to be
>>>> sure I've checked now that this variation font has no B/W hinting
>>>> instructions.  Its hinting was certainly equally bad with an older
>>>> version of FreeType.
>>> Ok, I solved the problem. There were many coincidences playing a 
>>> role in the
>>> original report.
>>>
>>> For starters the (real) regression in fonts-ubuntu triggered my 
>>> attention, but
>>> unlucky testing against Liberation Sans revealed a change in hinting 
>>> between
>>> fonts-liberation and fonts-liberation2, which wasn't installed on my 
>>> reference
>>> system. fonts-liberation2 lacks proper hinting (which showed on my 
>>> 23.04
>>> system) but fonts-liberation is properly hinted (on the 22.04 
>>> machine). Once
>>> installed, fonts-liberation2 overrides all Liberation fonts, except for
>>> Liberation Sans Narrow.
>>>
>>> Removing fonts-liberation2 and downgrading fonts-ubuntu to fonts-
>>> ubuntu_0.83-6ubuntu1_all.deb seems to solve all the reported problems.
>>>
>>> My apologies for the noise and thanks for adding your thoughts to this!
>
> Are the Ubuntu folks aware of this problem? If not, please create an 
> issue in their (or Debian’s?) bug tracker [1].
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/