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Update: Thanks Operations for blazing quick response, new FreeType is on the server and rendering should back to normal after cache invalidated.

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After the Noto CJK finally landed in the Standard layer, Boldness issue became a major problem for them.

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Investigation by ` vholten` proved it was caused by the old FreeType version (2.6.1) in the rendering server, but it seems there is no easy or safe way to fix the issue.

  • Converting to (Cubic) OTF to (Quadratic) TTF will take very long time and the result may not be loseless.
  • Upgrade newer FreeType via third-party PPA, or patch and build old FreeType from apt-get source will work, but dangerous and will become a maintenance hell.

Maybe we should give up on fixing it until we can get newer Linux distro?

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