Thanks for your bug report. The issue is still present in Natty (which
still has 2.4.2), confirming. I'm also marking it as a regression.
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Tags added: maverick regression-release
** Description changed:
An improved algorithm for flattening splines (commit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7fb3ef64a24489189113f693696eaf935f500c3f)
first released in freetype 2.4.0 causes serious rendering issues with
the 'S' character in a number of fonts, including Helvetica, Calluna and
Tallys.
The bug was reported to the freetype-devel mailing list in August and
fixed in git a few weeks ago, so the fix will be in the next release,
freetype 2.4.3, which is not yet scheduled. Maverick is the first Ubuntu
release affected by this bug and should include the fix in its freetype
2.4.2 package.
You can find an example of the problem in the pdf documents attached to
this email:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.devel/6809 . I'll
attach to this bug report a PNG screenshot.
The fix is in commit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e0a9a93330d3057ddf532205709ba4e1423b2557
with another type corrected in the following commit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=0e6fc09134c0c39016f681802918b92db2ab2155
+
+ == Regression details ==
+ Discovered in version: 2.4.2-2 (10.10)
+ Last known good version: 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.4 (10.04)
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Rendering regression in freetype 2.4.2
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