[Bug 23981] cairo doesn't respect TrueType gasp tables (and fonts look ugly as a result)

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Sat Dec 5 18:38:55 UTC 2009


http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23981





--- Comment #5 from Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>  2009-12-05 10:38:53 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > As an end user, I would prefer my fonts to render correctly instead of
> > incorrectly.
> 
> In any case there should be a way to override the font's gasp table. I
> personally favour seeing the few badly antialiased glyphs than seeing them all
> as bitmapped.
> 

Antialiasing the font anyway but lying to the bytecode about whether the AA is
being performed might be an interesting exercise. That can't be done at the
cairo level, though.


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