Bug 186180

Summary: Diminished font quality with this version of ghostscript
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Screenshot of evince/rawhide displaying guide.ps
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Screenshot of evince display guide.ps on FC4 none

Description Gérard Milmeister 2006-03-22 00:28:42 UTC 
Font rendering is noticeably worse in 8.15 compared to the
version in FC4. This problem has been reported in:

http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/bug-gs/2004-April/003412.html

and

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687419

Maybe one should investigate, if one apply a patch to restore
the previous font rendering.

Since this affects evince as well as ImageMagick, this can
have a wide impact on the rendering of graphics with fonts.
For example I use convert to generate .png from .eps files.
Comment 1 Saikat Guha 2006-04-06 14:30:18 UTC 
Confirming this bug.

Downgrading ghostscript in FC5 to version 7.07-40 from FC4 is a temporary fix
the problem. Downgrade requires getting rid of gimp though.
Comment 2 Gérard Milmeister 2006-04-06 14:45:53 UTC 
With ghostscript 8.53, rendering is better, but still as good as
ghostscript 7.07. However 8.53 is not GPL. I wonder if there is
an easy fix for this.
BTW, it seems that this affects mainly the x11 backend.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2006-12-15 12:04:43 UTC 
Does this problem still occur?  If so, please provide a test case.
Comment 4 Saikat Guha 2006-12-15 12:21:01 UTC 
Rendering seems fine on rawhide.

gv-3.6.2-2.fc7
ghostscript-8.15.3-2.fc7
fontconfig-2.4.1-3.fc6
freetype-2.2.1-15.fc6
Comment 5 Gérard Milmeister 2006-12-15 16:36:18 UTC 
Created attachment 143782 [details]
Screenshot of evince

This screenshot shows evince displaying the file
/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.ps
from the tetex package. The text rendering is very bad.
Comment 6 Saikat Guha 2006-12-16 00:06:02 UTC 
Created attachment 143835 [details]
Screenshot of evince/rawhide displaying guide.ps
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2006-12-18 15:47:16 UTC 
What does 'rpm -q ghostscript' say, corresponding to the FC6 screenshot?
Comment 8 Gérard Milmeister 2006-12-18 17:09:55 UTC 
ghostscript-8.15.3-1.fc6
Comment 9 Gérard Milmeister 2006-12-18 17:11:37 UTC 
Created attachment 143914 [details]
Screenshot of evince display guide.ps on FC4

For comparison, here is the rendering on FC4.