Inconsistent font rendering on Windows vs Linux
The first version of the OpenWTC score is created on Windows and revealed a rendering issue when rendered with Linux on musescore.com.
The issue occurs two times:
http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/scores/541066#comment-505026
http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/scores/541066#comment-505021
(Click on the "posted on page x" link above the comment to see the issue)
This issue is due to a different font rendering difference on both platforms by Qt. It's a known issue with no solution yet.
See also:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25761556/qt5-font-rendering-differen…
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can anybody check if starting MuseScore on windows comandline with option:
mscore -platform windows::fontengine=freetype
makes any difference in font rendering?
MuseScore.exe, not mscore :-)
Here is the result of "MuseScore.exe -platform windows:fontengine=freetype" in fontengine.png, compared to the usual "MuseScore.exe" in file normal.png.
Not only the layout changes, but also all the texts in the menus: they look thinner and wider with respect to the usual scenario.
Windows 8.1, commit 1d4556b (self-compiled, debug mode).
This platform dependent rendering of fonts is horrible. Font metrics are interpreted differently and can lead to different system and even page breaks on different platforms.
We should consider running MuseScore on windows (and if possible on mac) with the freetype fontengine. Not because it looks better but to get uniform platform independent results.
For the record, this came up again here http://dev-list.musescore.org/Qt-and-OpenType-td7579162.html
Fixed with GIT commit: eff562e
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.