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[Arnaud Renevier <256058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many fonts (at least truetype fonts), when rendered with freetype, have
a point with a big thickness increase. For times  new roman, that point
is between 13pt and 14pt.

This behaviour only happens when hinting is activated. When a glyph is
loaded in freetype without hinting (ie: with flag FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING),
thickness increase is more smooth.

When hinting is activated for a truetype font, the font manages its
hinting itself with some special instructions. So, I'm not sure if
problem lies in freetype, in the way it's called by openoffice, or in
the times new roman font file itself.

As a demonstration, here is an webpage using times new roman at 13pt and 14pt:
http://renevier.net/misc/font.html
The thickness increase also happens on windows with firefox, safari, and ie6 (but not with ie>=7)

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Fonts not rendered correctly in OOo - Times New Roman looks bold above 13pt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256058
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