[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'
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--- Comment #39 from Kriston Rehberg <me(a)kriston.net> 2008-12-05 15:46:45 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #37)
> If you guys want to see *any* resolution, please stop wild guessing where the
> problem is. Or suggest random resolutions...
>
> The bug is clear: the freetype autohinter is performing badly. Either go dig
> the code and fix it, or don't make noise as my inbox is full enough already.
>
> Thanks,
It wasn't clear before, but it is clear now to you. I *cannot* reproduce it on
my system using the ft2demos utilities but I can inside Mozilla and other
applications.
This discussion is very helpful. Investigate your email filters.
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[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'
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--- Comment #34 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs(a)gmail.com> 2008-12-05 14:34:03 EDT ---
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> This is discouraging, and it's rather why I suggested that the option to
> disabling ligatures ought to be provided somewhere in the rendering chain.
I don't consider a method to disable ligatures a solution for this bug, as it
doesn't do anything to fix it. I'm not saying it's not nice to have, but it
should be independent from this bug report.
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[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'
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--- Comment #32 from Kriston Rehberg <me(a)kriston.net> 2008-12-05 14:23:18 EDT ---
>From one of the FreeType bug reports at http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25013:
>There are high chances that the autohinter doesn't render these ligature
>glyphs well. However, this problem is not special to ligatures per se but can
>happen with any glyph (well, it shouldn't happen with any glyph...).
This is discouraging, and it's rather why I suggested that the option to
disabling ligatures ought to be provided somewhere in the rendering chain.
For purity's sake, the argument that ligatures should "always" be accepted is
not backed up by precedent. The user already can optionally disable deltas,
hinting, and kerning. It naturally follows that he must also be allowed to
optionally disable ligatures if ligatures look awful.
Right now, installing a clean copy of Fedora 10 (and 9,8,7, etc) you get awful
ligatures.
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