Font rendering problem in 1.6 branch (fine in 1.5 and master)

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Sun Jan 18 01:25:47 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 18:49 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> I had to hack googleearth to remove the custom libQt so that I could get
> fonts displayed in that application...

Sounds like maybe you got bitten by
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233 (the fix for which is
nominated on the wiki Server16Branch page) or the corresponding bug in
UXA.

Looks like newer versions of Qt use component-alpha glyphs even for
bitmap fonts when sub-pixel AA is enabled...


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