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Has font rendering changed significantly?

Toewe
2019-12-17
2019-12-17
  • Toewe

    Toewe - 2019-12-17

    Hi, We're using phplot ver 6.2 on two significantly different versions of Mac OS (10.9 and 10.14). The Arial text font that we use renders differently on these two OS versions, though they both report using the same version of GD, (2.1.0 compatible). The effect is that both the character spacing and aspect ratio are different.

    The GD versionas reported by phpinfo(), and the truetype font files are the same, phpinfo() reports using different versions of Freetype, 2.3.11 versus 2.4.2. Does that explain the different renderings? What is the solution to making them render the same? Thanks in advance.

     
  • Afan Ottenheimer

    That sounds like a kerning issue ( https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html ). So I would guess that - it is the differences between the Freetype setup that's causing that issue.

     

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