Bug 72703

Summary:	No Xft2 slighthinting
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Need Real Name <al.sh>
Component:	Xft	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Description Need Real Name 2002-08-26 19:05:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
I noticed that you have applied a patch from
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/ to Xft2 and fontconfig. The problem is
that your version of Xft2 doesn't seem to honor my settings in
gnome-font-properties so I don't get any slight hinting (and I sure remember how
it looked like). Even more, the grayscale/none/subpixel setting in
gnome-font-properties works, but the slight/full/medium/none look equal (seen
through xmag). (btw, is there any other way to set this hinting setting, I don't
want to launch some gnome app every time to apply the settings). Also, I have my
monitor resolution set to 75dpi (-dpi 75 option to X), but when I choose 75dpi
in that gnome applet, I get bigger fonts. My fonts seem to display at 72-74 dpi
or so.
And of course, I do have the USE_GDK_XFT=1 in my env.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open  gnome-font-properties
2. choose details
3. try some different settings for hinting and compare with xmag
	

Actual Results:  no difference between none/slight/medium/full hinting

Expected Results:  should look like in Xft1 patch from
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/

Additional info:

I'm using arial font from ms (actually, all fonts produce the same result).
fontconfig-0.0.1.020811.1151-9, Xft-1.9.1.020811.1151-3, freetype-2.1.2-5,
XFree86-4.2.0-52, pango-1.1.1-1, glib2-2.0.6-1, gtk2-2.0.6-5, qt-3.0.5-13,
glibc-2.2.90-21, gcc-3.2-1

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-08-26 20:06:24 UTC

The slight-hinting stuff in Milan is completely unrelated to
the 'xfthack' patch, other than I was inspired by it
to try some stuff in that area.

The font properties dialog only affects GTK+ apps when
logged into GNOME 2. (The gnome-settings-daemon program
must be running.)

For other circumstances, look at /etc/X11/Xresources.

The resolution is intentionally separate from the X server
DPI. THe X server DPI is supposed to the phyical DPI of
a monitor, while the "logical DPI" for fonts also depends
on, e.g., viewing distance.

A fixed DPI gives the most predictable results, it is least
likely to go wrong in extreme circumstances.

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2002-08-26 20:07:13 UTC

Oh, also, slight hinting in (null) is a post-script font only thing,
so try Luxi or Nimbus Sans; won't do anything for Arial.