17.10 font hinting broken?

[Martin van Es]

And the setting bug I reported:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384586

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Martin van Es <mrvanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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