[MacPorts] #55626: freetype 2.8x : restore line height as it was in 2.7.1 and earlier
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#55626: freetype 2.8x : restore line height as it was in 2.7.1 and earlier
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Reporter: RJVB | Owner: ryandesign
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: haspatch
Port: freetype |
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Comment (by RJVB):
And I am not at all delighted about them forcing form over function. If
you read the exchanges, they fixed something they considered broken (since
a very long time) on theoretical grounds. They do provide an alternative
to revert to the old line-height but the instructions aren't clear and
seem directed at software using FreeType.
In addition, line spacing was nearly identical to line-spacing in
CoreText, in Freetype v2.7.1 and earlier (and 2.8+ with the revert patch).
This can be observed quite easily in simple Qt5 applications displaying
text (say with QTextBrowser), by starting the application with or without
the `-platform cocoa:fontengine=freetype` commandline option.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55626#comment:3>
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