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

Ciaran Kearney <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:42:37 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Message-ID <DS7PR17MB7066262DFFA5EEB27705D9D784832@DS7PR17MB7066.namprd17.prod.outlook.com>
Bug filed. Many thanks,

Ciaran

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday 30 April 2025 09:00
To: Ciaran Kearney <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Marton Godar <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Change in behaviour when loading a glyphs from a font file in =
2.13.2


>>> We notice a regression/unexpected change in the Freetype library
>>> from version 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 notice that the scaling for auto-hinting (after pressing
>> key 'f') is very different from the scaling, see attached images.
>>
>> This smells indeed like a bug.  Alexei?
>
> Just wondering if there was anymore movement around this issue.

Sorry, no.  Please file an issue in our bug tracker so that it isn't forgot=
ten.

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues


    Werner

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