[Interest] [OS X] next Qt 5.6.0 question : Freetype (building with -fontconfig)?

René J. V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 23:21:23 CET 2016


> See https://codereview.qt-project.org/124643.
> 
> That's supposed to fix the issue, but reviewers found problems with it. I
> don't know enough about OS X so the change was left in limbo.

Thanks, I'll try to test it tomorrow. As I mentioned on the ticket it may be the 
fix wasn't helping because configure can't find either freetype2.pc or freetype-
config in the non-standard /opt/X11 .

So, does this mean that font rendering can use Freetype instead of CoreText now, 
and thus potentially benefit from the rendering quality provided by the 
Infinality patches (as well as better support for less common font weights)?

R.




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