On Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017 12:02:21 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > Well, it's confirmed: I was seeing the same "watery" rendering on certain > fonts under Linux/X11 using Freetype+Infinality (still on 2.6.5 on Linux; > Mac has 2.7.1 with the same patches). I need a font smoothing gamma of 0.95 > to get the font colour I had with Qt 5.8 across all fonts I tested. Which > means that font rendering quality is still leagues ahead of what you get > without those patches: better than the Mac font rendering quality in any > case (on "normal" displays). > > Again, the Novarese family is the one I use that's most affected. I don't > really get why other fonts aren't affected (and still look about the same > with the tweaked smoothing gamma). The up-to-date Infinality patches are > here, if you're interested to see if they do anything that interacts with > your new rendering approach: https://github.com/archfan/infinality_bundle > > > I take it you checked the new rendering with those older Freetype versions? > It only affects newer versions of freetype, I believe 2.6.2 introduced the setting.
Note newer versions of freetype (since 2.7) already include the most of the infinality changes as a runtime option. It is possible something else changed for you. The stem-darkening and gamma- correcting if gone wrong, would either make text look paler or bolder, but not blurry, blurry sounds lcd-filtering or subpixel positioning changing. 'Allan _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
