About font rendering

[mintogo]

Hello!~

I have a question about font rendering(actually.. text rendering)

When I use arial font(included in Windows) as 16 pixel point, It looks fine,

but.. on 13, 12 ... at small size.

Text looks very blurry.

So I tried to off anti-aliasing when create free type font, it was terrible..

Is there any way to solve it?

I will link screen shot, soon.

[Ident]

No idea what you mean.. screenshot please.

[mintogo]

No idea what you mean.. screenshot please.

Ok, I add screenshot link below..

1.
https://ibb.co/ny3DVx
Above is.. CreateFreeTypeFont with arial.ttf(included in windows), enable anti-aliasing, 11.0f point size.

2.
https://ibb.co/dDaSqx
It's same with 1, except anti-aliasing.
It's disable anti-aliasing.

Actually, It's looks like bold font when anti-aliasing enable on small size font..

Ah I'm using CEGUI 0.8.7 and VS2013!

[Niektory]

Looks like a hinting problem. What Freetype version are you using? Freetype changed the default font hinting engine around 2.6.4, and the new one is... not very good, to put it mildly. Fortunately you can still make it use the old one.

[mintogo]

Looks like a hinting problem. What Freetype version are you using? Freetype changed the default font hinting engine around 2.6.4, and the new one is... not very good, to put it mildly. Fortunately you can still make it use the old one.

Hello Niektory!

Thank you to your advice!

I use included version of FreeType.

I will try it and after that I will replay about it!

[mintogo]

Looks like a hinting problem. What Freetype version are you using? Freetype changed the default font hinting engine around 2.6.4, and the new one is... not very good, to put it mildly. Fortunately you can still make it use the old one.

I checked a version of Freetype which included in CEGUI, it was 2.4.4.
Also, I changed it to Freetype 2.9 version, but there is no dramatical changed. (English is looks a little better, but CJK fonts are not)
I used Google's Noto Sans font.

Can you tell me more about FF_INTERPRETER_VERSION_XX ?

I can't not find how to change FF_INTERPRETER_VERSION...