Re: [ft] Different rendering on Win / Mac

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have the same client code running on :
>
> - Windows 7 / MSVC10 / FreeType-2.3.5 downloaded from gnuwin32
> - MacOSX 10.9 / Xcode / FreeType-2.5.3 compiled with configure/make,
>   default options
> 
> The rendering output is quite different.  I attach an example as
> PNG.  Windows output is above, MacOSX output is below.
> 
> Is it possible that the different FreeType version explains this
> difference ?

Yes.  Both the TrueType and the auto hinter have been improved,
sometimes leading to different rendering results.

Since you don't tell us any details on how you are calling FreeType,
this is just a very broad statement, of course.


    Werner