Bug 216321

Summary: sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Dirk Gfroerer <dirk.gfroerer>
Component: freetypeAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
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Description Dirk Gfroerer 2006-11-19 08:44:40 UTC 
Description of problem:


RHEL 5 Beta 2

xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2.1.el5

How reproducible:
Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch firefox.
2. Navigate to e.g. http://www.heise.de/newsticker
3. Take a look at the page being rendered.
  
Actual results:
Page is hard to read. Charactersequences like e.g. al are glued together.

Expected results:
Page is easy to read as it used to be with RHEL 4.
Comment 1 Dirk Gfroerer 2006-11-19 08:44:40 UTC 
Created attachment 141578 [details]
Part of a screen shot illustrating the problem
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2006-11-20 01:14:54 UTC 
core X fonts are pretty irrelevant here, since firefox uses pango for rendering.
Reassigning to freetype.
Comment 3 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2007-02-07 20:51:17 UTC 
-- uses pango.. reassigning to freetype...  
-- huh? why not pango?
Comment 4 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2007-04-05 23:01:26 UTC 
This bug should be closed by now. firefox/pango updates had fixed it like more 
than a month ago
Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2007-04-06 12:46:40 UTC 
Reporter, could you please confirm comment 4?
Comment 6 Dirk Gfroerer 2007-04-10 08:16:48 UTC 
Yes, this seems to be fixed in RHEL 5 final.