WPS Office bold fonts problems

Posted: 2024-08-10 | Author: | Filed under: office, ports, system | Tags: , , | 13 Comments

I use WPS Office for my work and so far have been quite happy with it. However, I noticed that it has some problem with certain fonts, when bold. I am not sure when this started, but apparently it happened after a certain freetype update. So, I decided to look around for a solution.
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Freetype hinting mode

Posted: 2019-04-17 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I just upgraded to -current, which should become Slackware 15.0 at some point. I immediately noticed that hinting was awful. I tried changing the settings in Xfce, but there was no improvement. Finally, I realised that it should be set up elsewhere.
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