660711 - Enable use of Freetype LCD filtering where supported

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456448

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Coulson]

Attachment: Turn on Freetype LCD filtering when supported

Bug 562746 landed Cairo 1.10 which contains a change to pass LCD filtering parameters to Freetype. This improves the look of fonts when using sub-pixel rendering by reducing color fringing, but it needs to be enabled by defining HAVE_FT_LIBRARY_SETLCDFILTER when Freetype supports it.

For reference, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10301. Note that up until now we've been carrying this Cairo patch in our Firefox builds in Ubuntu for quite a long time.

Comment 1

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

Thanks, Chris.  I think bug 456448 covers this.