Bug 100862

Summary:	default font quality decreased
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	Klaasjan Brand <kjb>
Component:	fontconfig	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	beta1	CC:	mitr, nphilipp
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://216.226.44.198/font-problem/
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Description Klaasjan Brand 2003-07-26 06:22:41 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030703 Galeon/1.3.6

Description of problem:
Something in the fonts or font rendering code has changed; the default Luxi font
family is rendered a bit off compared to Red Hat 9.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just look at any application under X with the default desktop

Comment 1 Marc Deslauriers 2003-07-26 12:36:11 UTC

I agree. Something changed in the new freetype that makes Luxi look ugly.

I put up a web page with screenshots comparing rhl9 with severn here:

http://216.226.44.198/font-problem/

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2003-09-02 23:18:47 UTC

THe "Here is Severn with bytecode interpreter turned on" screenshot
looks like you've somehow switched from "Best Shapes" to "Best Contrast"
in the font properties dialog.

(Note that having the bytecode interpreter turned on is a config we support)

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2003-09-22 20:34:22 UTC

OK, I think I tracked this one down ... a mistake in the spec file
(or change in fontconfig's configure options) meant that the wrong
font directories were appearing in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, so the
wrong version of Luxi Sans was used - TrueType instead of Type1.

(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF should not be in the list.)

With the TrueType bytecode interpreter, "Best Shapes" vs. "Best Contrast"
doesn't make a difference, so you got the ugly "Best Shapes" appearance.

Comment 4 Marc Deslauriers 2003-10-13 23:58:32 UTC

Removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF from fonts.conf worked for me. Everything
is nice and clean. 

Can this be put in rawhide, please?

Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-10-15 15:54:34 UTC

* Mon Sep 22 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor> 2.2.1-6.0
- Should have been passing --with-add-fonts, not --with-add-dirs to
  configure ... caused wrong version of Luxi to be used. (#100862)