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

[Anssi Hannula]

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>
         </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

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Anssi Hannula