17.10 font hinting broken?

[Martin van Es]

Been there, done that:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63792

libfreetype 2.8.1 can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/updates/+sourcepub/8306970/+listing-archive-extra

Plasma 5.11.1 is in backports.

You'll be left with bad bold and italics hinting, but that's low
priority bug according to the triaging verdict of Qt.

Martin

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Luca Olivetti <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:
> I just upgraded to 17.10[*] and, as every time I upgrade, the fonts sucks: I
> like my fonts crisp, so I hate antialiasing at the normal font sizes.
> OTOH without aliasing most fonts have bad hinting and look awful, so I use
> fonts with good hinting (msttcorefonts), aliasing disabled between 8 and 15
> points and full hinting.
> This usually fixes the problem with bad fonts, but this time it doesn't: it
> seems that it doesn't do hinting at all and the fonts are badly rendered
> (just like they usually do with the autohinter).
>
> I tried both using the kde fonts settings (which writes
> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf [**]) and linking (in /etc/fonts)
> conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf to conf.d but I couldn't fix the problem.
>
> At the moment I had to enable aliasing for all font sizes and my eyes are
> bleeding (though they bled even more without the correct hinting).
>
> Any hint (no pun intended)?
>
> [*]side note: it didn't propose the upgrade even if I have enabled in
> discover the setting to show all upgrades, I had to upgrade manually with
> do-release-upgrade
>
> [**]side note 2: it seems that kde cannot parse back the fonts.conf it
> writes, since, e.g., it shows the aliasing as "disabled" when I just enabled
> it and it wrote fonts.conf.
>
>
> Bye
> --
> Luca
>
>
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