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| author | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2011-02-24 20:01:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2011-02-24 20:01:00 +0100 |
| commit | e7d1fb3142b5e79b83a6267e1a838341b05fc154 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b31b47645a2ab013176f36b62d2cc5d7e879442 | |
| parent | 6c28689691e19ce9cbaa86e59adc339399ce4d9d (diff) | |
* docs/PROBLEMS: Mention rendering differences on different
platforms.
Suggested and worded by Jason Owen <jason.a.owen@gmail.com>.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/PROBLEMS | 15 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2011-02-24 Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> + * docs/PROBLEMS: Mention rendering differences on different + platforms. + Suggested and worded by Jason Owen <jason.a.owen@gmail.com>. + +2011-02-24 Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> + [autofit] Comment out unused code. * src/autofit/aflatin.c, src/autofit/aflatin2.c diff --git a/docs/PROBLEMS b/docs/PROBLEMS index 9b598966..40bdc35a 100644 --- a/docs/PROBLEMS +++ b/docs/PROBLEMS @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Running Problems ----- Of course, there might be bugs in FreeType, but some fonts based on -the PostScript format can't behandled indeed. The reason is that +the PostScript format can't be handled indeed. The reason is that FreeType doesn't contain a full PostScript interpreter but applies pattern matching instead. In case a font doesn't follow the standard structure of the given font format, FreeType fails. A typical example @@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ It might be possible to patch FreeType in some situations, though. Please report failing fonts so that we investigate the problem and set up a list of such problematic fonts. + +* Why do identical FreeType versions render differently on different + platforms? + +----- + +Different distributions compile FreeType with different options. The +developer version of a distribution's FreeType package, which is +needed to compile your program against FreeType, includes the file +ftoption.h. Compare each platform's copy of ftoption.h to find the +differences. + + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |