[Bug 40634] New: Add option to use lighter hinting for fonts

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40634

            Bug ID: 40634
           Summary: Add option to use lighter hinting for fonts
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.8.1
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdi32
          Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
          Reporter: milasudril(a)gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 54507
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=54507
Image illustrated the problem.

Some fonts apparently does not work when fully hinted (in this case Andika).
The thought is that it is a bug in the font, but I am not sure if this is going
to be fixed. That depends on how much SIL cares about screen rendering. Running
with light hinting works much better so a work-around is to add an option for
switching off or reducing hinting in winecfg.

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[Bug 40634] Add option to use lighter hinting for fonts

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40634

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)baikal.ru> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|gdi32                       |-unknown

--- Comment #1 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)baikal.ru> ---
(In reply to milasudril from comment #0)
> Created attachment 54507 [details]
> Image illustrated the problem.
>
> Some fonts apparently does not work when fully hinted (in this case Andika).
> The thought is that it is a bug in the font, but I am not sure if this is
> going to be fixed. That depends on how much SIL cares about screen
> rendering. Running with light hinting works much better so a work-around is
> to add an option for switching off or reducing hinting in winecfg.

How does rendering of this font look like under Windows? Changing hinting
globally will break a lot of fonts (for instance shipped in the Microsoft
Web fonts package), and what is worse will make rendered font metrics
incompatible (and as a result break page/document layout) with the Windows
way. Another concern is that there are other modules that may potentially
differ from gdi32 in font rendering: gdiplus and dwrite.

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