Text cut off in Outlook 2007.

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Text cut off in Outlook 2007.

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I tried some names, but none of them show the symptom as you described. Would 
you
please upgrade to 0.7.6 first. If problem still exists, could you please show 
me a
screenshot of this? Thanks.

Original comment by [email protected] on 11 May 2010 at 2:23

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This is an issue that I think only appears when auto_hinting is ON, and 
light_mode is 
OFF.  It also appears to affect programs which use .NET framework (probably).  
in the 
following screen shots, hinting is always ON.   

first screen shot is when auto_hinting is OFF and light_mode is OFF - as you 
can see 
all text is correct.  

second shot is auto_hinting ON, but light_mode OFF - you can see bad cuts near 
the 
end of the string.

third shot is auto_hinting ON, light_mode ON - there are much less noticeable 
cuts in 
the Contacts, and the SQL looks fine. 

I usually keep light_mode off because its just a bit too fuzzy for me, but that 
also 
forces me to keep auto_hinting off as well because of this. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 13 May 2010 at 8:02

Attachments:

• outlook-sql-autoOFF-lightOFF.png
• outlook-sql-autoON-lightOFF.png
• outlook-sql-autoON-lightON.png

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As the document states, light_mode on implies auto_hinting on (see
FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT in
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html
#FT_LOAD_TARGET_XXX).
The text cut may be caused by the much wider glyphs that FreeType generates. I
remembered this problem also appears in Directory Opus. It is not a bug or 
error of
gdipp, but rather a native incompatibility of FreeType and GDI. I can force 
gdipp to
always draw all characters, but doing so may cause other potential issues.

Original comment by [email protected] on 14 May 2010 at 10:48

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Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Jun 2010 at 6:29

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Solved in the development version. Now the text width with auto hinting is 
correct.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Aug 2010 at 6:40

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