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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:08 pm    Post subject: the adobe-cff USE flag in freetype doesn't do anything? Reply with quote
I heard about the new font rendering engine Adobe donated to the freetype project. I wanted to test it out, but rebuilding freetype with adobe-cff use flag doesn't appear to change anything. I compared screenshots of chromium and the fonts look identical. Am I missing something here?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am dumb when it comes to font configuration, but I know that eselect has modules to configure fontconfig, infinality and lcdfilter. One or many of those might be relevant here, you might need to enable something in there for the thing to show up, dunno :lol:
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I looked through all of them, there's nothing that might be of interest here.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same result here. :-(

You can see a difference if you start
Code:
ftview 12 <font file>

and toggle the font engine using 'H' (upper case). In order to get ftview compiled and installed, you must emerge freetype with 'utils' USE flag.

Please note that the new font engine works only with CFF fonts - you won't see a difference for TrueType fonts.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
bug_report wrote:
Please note that the new font engine works only with CFF fonts - you won't see a difference for TrueType fonts.


Ah, that's the bit I've been missing. I've never heard of "CFF fonts" and thought it's an improvement for all font rendering. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Useful links (with examples):
https://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/05/adobe-contributes-cff-rasterizer-to-freetype.html
http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2013/05/got-cff.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.12/
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