Bug 1227614

Summary: Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sudhir Khanger <sudhir>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mkasik
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Description Sudhir Khanger 2015-06-03 06:52:14 UTC
Created attachment 1034149 [details]
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Description of problem:
Font rendering on Fedora 21 KDE worked fine. But in Fedora 22 which uses freetype-2.5.5-1.fc22.x86_64 it is way too grainier. I use slight hint which doesn't seem to be applied at all. RPMFusion which uses F21's freetype-freeworld-2.3.11 works fine. So something must have gone wrong in the update.

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Comment 1 Sudhir Khanger 2015-08-05 07:38:29 UTC
Created attachment 1059356 [details]
poor font rendering in firefox

Fonts are specially broken in GTK apps.

Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2016-01-05 17:38:58 UTC
There is a new hinting engine in freetype since 2.4.12. It was turned by default in 2.5.0. I can not change it.


(In reply to Sudhir Khanger from comment #1)
> Fonts are specially broken in GTK apps.

This looks like a problem of the specific font. If you could find which font is shown on the screen it would help us and we could file a bug against the specific font.

Comment 3 Sudhir Khanger 2016-01-05 18:27:31 UTC
It's been so long I won't be able to provide any info. Thanks for commenting.