RE: Change in behaviour when loading a glyphs from a font file in 2.13.2

Ciaran Kearney <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:51:40 +0000
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Hey,

Just wondering if there was anymore movement on this issue?

Thanks,
Ciaran

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From: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday 21 January 2025 14:57
To: Ciaran Kearney <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Cc: Marton Godar <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Change in behaviour when loading a glyphs from a font file in =
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> We notice a regression/unexpected change in the Freetype library from ver=
sion 2.13.2. Can you help clarify if it is a bug in the FreeType library?
>
> When rendering the sample font file attached (sample_font_2.13.2.cff).
> The resulting image is incorrect.

If this font gets inspected with the current git's version of `ftview`, I n=
otice that the scaling for auto-hinting (after pressing key 'f') is very di=
fferent from the scaling, see attached images.

This smells indeed like a bug.  Alexei?


    Werner

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