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

[Dimitrios Glentadakis]

2011/2/25, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
> 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.

After many many changes i could cleared it, before was very blurred.
(maybe an incompatible setting n my /home)




>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>

Thanks, it is ok with this setting


>>> 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

Ok thanks for the clarification

(i'd preffer they keep their patent :D )




-- 
Dimitrios Glentadakis