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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 25 February 2011 22:48, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 25.02.2011 22:29, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> On 25.02.2011 21:22, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Right one looks better to me, the left one looks too blurred.
>> I do not notice any red stuff in the text on the right-hand image.
>>
>>> 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
>> [...]
>>> It means that now the bytecode interpreter is enabled ? May be this creates the distortion.
>>
>> You can switch back to autohinter by force-enabling "autohint" in
>> ~/.fonts.conf:
>> <match target="font">
>>          <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
>>                  <bool>false</bool>
>
> Should be true, not false.
>
>>          </edit>
>> </match>
>>
>> Or system-wide by enabling a configuration file which does the same:
>> ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf
>>
>
>
> --
> Anssi Hannula
>

Adding to Anssi's minute explanation; yes, the bytecode interpreter is
enabled by default since version 2.4, this is an upstream change as
the patents expired http://freetype.org/patents.html

-- 
Ahmad Samir