Qt 5.4 Is Now Under A Feature Freeze

[smitty3268]

I don't want full hinting. Fonts look bad with it. Qt 5 is broken. Freetype renders slight hinted fonts just fine, and therefore Qt 5 should also render them fine.

[RealNC]

Or something wrong with your configuration or version of freetype. Slight hinting works as it should, yes it is more blurry, that is the point

What?! Are you blind? It's not more blurry. The color is washed out, more transparent.

The bug has NOTHING to do with being blurry.

[curaga]

Word wrapping has been broken since 4.6, and I bet it's still broken in 5.3. It was even bisected to the exact commit causing it, and no fix. Qt responsiveness, ladies and gentlemen.

[carewolf]

I don't want full hinting. Fonts look bad with it. Qt 5 is broken. Freetype renders slight hinted fonts just fine, and therefore Qt 5 should also render them fine. Since it doesn't, there's somethings wrong with how it uses Freetype.

Every other app on my system works correctly. Qt 4, Gtk, Chrome, everyhing. Except Qt 5 and Java. Those two produce an abomination of a font rendering.

And this doesn't even excuse the PCF rendering problem, which was reported since day one when Qt 5.0.0 came out. Wanna bet how quickly they would have fixed those problems if they affected the Windows version? We all hated Nokia, but boy, Digia doesn't lift a finger when it comes to Linux.

Or something wrong with your configuration or version of freetype. Slight hinting works as it should, yes it is more blurry, that is the point, if you don't want that use real hinting. And as a I said things get fixed faster for Linux than for Windows because most developers at Digia uses Linux personally.

[TheBlackCat]

We all hated Nokia, but boy, Digia doesn't lift a finger when it comes to Linux.

That must be why they waited so long to support Wayland in Qt 5. Oh wait...

[RealNC]

Yes, and that's what you were told in the bug report: slight hinting only will hint vertical which is not intended for GUI. Just enable full hinting will most likely fix your issue.

I don't want full hinting. Fonts look bad with it. Qt 5 is broken. Freetype renders slight hinted fonts just fine, and therefore Qt 5 should also render them fine. Since it doesn't, there's somethings wrong with how it uses Freetype.

Every other app on my system works correctly. Qt 4, Gtk, Chrome, everyhing. Except Qt 5 and Java. Those two produce an abomination of a font rendering.

And this doesn't even excuse the PCF rendering problem, which was reported since day one when Qt 5.0.0 came out. Wanna bet how quickly they would have fixed those problems if they affected the Windows version? We all hated Nokia, but boy, Digia doesn't lift a finger when it comes to Linux.

[carewolf]

Yes, and that's what you were told in the bug report: slight hinting only will hint vertical which is not intended for GUI. Just enable full hinting will most likely fix your issue.

Slight an no-hinting should work. It is Mac style hinting and a lot of people use it, it is also used when rendering to scalable canvases such as OpenGL. Then again I am using that, and have not seen any issue before, so saying it is completely broken for truetype and opentype is nonsense. Though ofcourse it is more blurry, that is the whole point, with weaker hinting fonts are more design precise and less pixel precise.

[Jedibeeftrix]

QT3D?

[schmalzler]

To get TT/OT breakage, I suspect that you need to be using slight hinting instead of full hinting.

Yes, and that's what you were told in the bug report: slight hinting only will hint vertical which is not intended for GUI. Just enable full hinting will most likely fix your issue.

[RealNC]

All fonts are broken. Both TrueType and OpenType:

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-37749

as well as PCF:

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-28739

To get TT/OT breakage, I suspect that you need to be using slight hinting instead of full hinting.