Re: [ft] Different rendering in 2.4.x and 2.3.5

[Alexander Shaduri]

Hello,

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:03:29 +0200
Wojtek Mamrak wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I observed some differences in how fonts are rendered. Here is the screen
> showing same text rendered with the same font family and font size:
> 
> http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3171/freetype.jpg

AFAIK, 2.4.0 enabled the bytecode hinting by default (you can still
disable it, it's a compile-time option).
In this image, the first row looks autohinted, the second one looks
bytecode-hinted. So I guess this is all there is to it.

Cheers,
Alexander