[Mageia-discuss] Do you have any problem with fonts ?

[Dimitrios Glentadakis]

Στις Δευτέρα 21 Φεβρουάριος 2011 07:30:13 γράψατε:
> I remarked a change in fonts, they are not like before. I installed liberation fonts because it was missing, but stil the fonts has something blur, it is a little painful to read specially in white background.
> I changed the dpi, and i tried different settings (subpixel etc) without success
> It is like is the letter has a little margin with some little red points inside.
> 
> It is any change to freetype2 package or is the same as mandriva ?
> 
> 
> 

Finaly there is a problem with the freetype2 package of mageia
You can see the screenshot, 
http://www.mandrivalinux.gr/dimitrios/freetype8mdv.png

i had the same problem before :
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56825
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48346
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=36173

I installed in my system (mageia) the mandriva package:
[root at localhost dglent]# rpm -ivh --force lib64freetype6-2.3.12-1mdv2010.1.x86_64.rpm 
warning: lib64freetype6-2.3.12-1mdv2010.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 70771ff3
Preparing...                                                           ########################################### [100%]
   1:lib64freetype6                                                    ########################################### [100%]

and the fonts became normal.

There is a difference in the spec of mandriva and mageia of freetype2

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mandriva:
%define build_bytecode_interpreter 0
%define build_subpixel 0
%define build_plf 0
%{?_with_plf: %global build_plf 1}
%{?_with_bytecode_interpreter: %global build_bytecode_interpreter 1}
%{?_with_subpixel: %global build_subpixel 1}

%define name	freetype2
%define	version	2.3.12


%if %build_plf
%define distsuffix plf
%define build_subpixel 1
%define build_bytecode_interpreter 1
%endif

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mageia:
%define build_subpixel 0
%define build_plf 0
%{?_with_plf: %global build_plf 1}
%{?_with_subpixel: %global build_subpixel 1}

%define name	freetype2
%define	version	2.4.4


%if %build_plf
%define distsuffix plf
%define build_subpixel 1
%endif
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

It means that now the bytecode interpreter is enabled ? May be this creates the distortion.


-- 
Dimitrios Glentadakis