freetype 2.1.7 is broken - 2.1.9 in AC

havner havner at smtp.kamp.pl
Tue Mar 15 09:53:08 CET 2005


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:45:10PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI, freetype 2.1.7 is broken and doesn't render some fonts correctly. xpdf 
> when rendering by using freetype (not t1lib which is used by default) is one 
> of victims of this (kpdf is another one).
> 
> The solution is to upgrade to 2.1.9. It doesn't seem to be hard since it looks 
> backward compatible on ABI level (yes, there is API change).

Hmm, how could API be changed without ABI changes?

> Does anyone know any ABI changes in 2.1.8/2.1.9? If there aren't any then we 
> could switch to 2.1.9 in AC. 

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