On 2010 Dec 21, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> Michael you are maintainer and included this patch already. >> >> So this is some mistake not to be closed upon upload. > > My goal with this bug was to keep a record of the differences with > respect to upstream with the intent on closing the bug once all of the > changes were in fact upstreamed or chosen not to be accepted. I had > hoped to hear something back from Derek, but haven't yet. > > I would prefer to keep this open for a bit longer.
That patch doesn't apply directly to Xpdf (it's a Poppler patch), but I have already made a comparable change in Xpdf -- which will be in the 3.03 release. I've added a new flag (xpdfrc setting) that allows users to turn off FreeType hinting. By default hinting will be on. If (and only if) the xpdfrc file includes the new setting, then the FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING flag will be passed into FreeType. I've had some users complain about problems with hinting. It's rare, but I've decided it's useful to let people turn off hinting if they really want to. Leaving hinting enabled as the default will hopefully avoid the sorts of problems that jida...@jidanni.org has encountered. - Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
