[Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

A small up on that (and a happy new year to the list !):
I tried building my custom freetype with the same patches than what's in
Arch to enable subpixel AA. Qt correctly picks it up.
Yet I still get non-subpixel AA when rendering so there may be a bit more
to that issue... (I build without fontconfig / harfbuzz though, that's the
next thing I'm going to try).

I set PreferVerticalHinting on my qApp's font (which corresponds iirc to
"slight" hinting ?)

Cheers,
Jean-Michaël


On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:03 PM Marius Kittler <mkittler at suse.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm also using Arch and that's how they configured their FreeType2 build:
>
> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/freetype2/trunk
>
> There are indeed some patches which might be an improvement.
>
> They also build with Harfbuzz support so its configuration might make a
> difference as well:
>
> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/harfbuzz/trunk/
> PKGBUILD
>
> I don't know whether you can influence the configuration of the bundled
> FreeType2 without patching. I personally simply configure Qt to use the
> system-provided library.
>
> For instance I also conduct my Windows builds under Arch for which I'm
> using
> my custom FreeType2 build in form of the `mingw-w64-freetype2` package. I
> try
> to configure the `mingw-w64-freetype2` package as close as possible to the
> regular `freetype2` package:
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-freetype2
>
> I suppose using your own FreeType2 build should work under any build
> environment as long as you install it somewhere Qt can find it.
>
> Note that the runtime configuration might also make a difference.
>
>
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