Re: gnustep-back font display broken on cairo

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred,

On 8/2/19 6:06 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I would not like to revert this change even though I agree with you that pull requests 
> this big are bad. The overall changes here are good and in most cases we see no issues 
> with them. As for your specific setting, did you try to run with the property 
> "GSFontHinting" set to the value 17? This should switch back to the old 
> behaviour for font hinting. If this does not help you should try to revert part of the 
> changes. This is easier as it seems. Most of the changes in this pull request deal with 
> font names and weights. That is irrelevant for the font displaying and you may just 
> ignore those changes. Which leaves you with less than a handful of interesting changes to 
> look into.
>
> That is currently all I can say as I am away from my computer.


if I set the value to 17, Ink will hang when I open the "test" file I 
prepared (but not other files).

Of course, not only Ink, other applications will hang... e.g. GNUMail 
when displaying a Mail.


Riccardo