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From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port rendering garbled
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:57:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2840e39-2923-a4ff-8382-3b8246df88f2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfm+kpoeKpXVzMznqPqcZVyCFjZs=hEqZGLeJ-3fGouD7cA@mail.gmail.com>

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Look into hinting and subpixel hinting modes of Freetype2.

For different people different combinations of modes (full, medium,
slight, none for hinting; 0/1/2 for subpixel hinting) give optimal results.

Hinting is usually set via symlinks under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to what's
available under /etc/fonts/conf.avail. Subpixel hinting via environment
variable FT2_SUBPIXEL_HINTING.


On 08/30/2016 05:08 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Sorry to post here; I've not been able to post the issue to plan9port
> on github.
>
> after updating to ubuntu 16.04 (from 14.04), i see garbled fonts in
> sam/acme/9term, etc. it doesn't seem to matter if native or host fonts
> are used (via fontsrv). attached is what it looks like in acme.
>
> i've been looking at p9p's devdraw and i'm suspecting something with
> Xlib calls has changed slightly.
>


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-30 17:08 Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-30 17:57 ` Eris Discordia [this message]

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