[opensource-dev] STORM-1090 : font size regression

[Nicky Perian]

Seems good to go, I used 2.4.4 and this FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT in the call and 
it worked. win7/64 bit.



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From: Philippe (Merov) Bossut <merov at lindenlab.com>
To: opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 6:44:20 PM
Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-1090 : font size regression

Hi,

I received a very good hint from Ov  Dos about this font rendering issue:
    http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2011-03/msg00010.html

I tried using FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT (only 1 call to change in 
LLFontFreetype::renderGlyph()) and it appears to fix the problem. *However*, I'm 
experiencing catastrophic freeze (no crash but the whole Mac is locked, hard 
reboot only option) on log in or TP  and a terrible frame rate when I manage to 
log in. I can't see the relationship between that glyph rendering change and 
logging in on a region and the SecondLife.log doesn't give much hint except for 
an inordinate amount of:
    WARNING: isFeatureAvailable: Feature RenderDeferred not on feature list!

Question: Has anyone tried FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT on other platform than Mac? 
Result?

Cheers,
- Merov


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut <merov at lindenlab.com> 
wrote:

Hi,
>
>We identified that moving from freetype 2.3.9 to 2.4.4 in viewer-autobuild2010 
>produces smaller text (roughly 10% smaller).
>
>Looking into this this afternoon, I was able to narrow it down to 
>LLFontFreetype::addGlyphFromFont(): tracing the glypth width  and height in 
>LLFontFreetype::addGlyphFromFont(), one can see that 2.4  sizes are almost 
>always 1 pixel smaller in height and sometimes width  than the same glyph 
>renderer with 2.3. 1 pixel on a 10 pixel high bitmap  explains why moving the UI 
>sixe rendering to 1.1 in preferences sort of  compensate the problem.
>The underlying issue as to where this rendering difference comes from  is 
>unclear. Searching the freetype release notes since 2.3.9 doesn't  point to 
>anything particularly relevant to this. Diffing freetype.h and  ftimage.h is not 
>bringing any useful information either, or at least, I haven't found any.
>If someone has any light to shed on this freetype issue, it would be very much 
>appreciated.
>For the moment, the plan of record is to downgrade freetype to 2.3.9 though, 
>clearly, this is not the best solution.
>Cheers,
>- Merov
>



      
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