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

[Anssi Hannula]

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
> 


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Anssi Hannula