Bug 103430 - Annoying coloration of black text
Summary: Annoying coloration of black text
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 88259
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-30 03:49 UTC by Everett Lipman
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:58:21 UTC
Embargoed:

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image of mozilla window (116.29 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-08-30 03:50 UTC, Everett Lipman 		no flags Details
another mozilla window image (69.08 KB, text/plain)
2003-08-30 03:50 UTC, Everett Lipman 		no flags Details
png version of first image (129.30 KB, image/png)
2003-09-04 17:56 UTC, Everett Lipman 		no flags Details
png version of second image (75.30 KB, image/png)
2003-09-04 17:56 UTC, Everett Lipman 		no flags Details
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Description Everett Lipman 2003-08-30 03:49:06 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
Text is displayed with strange and annoying coloration,
perhaps due to antialiasing.  See two attached images.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.2.1-26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load any page using the default fonts in Mozilla.
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  See attachments.  Turquoise stripes in many letters.

Expected Results:  Black text should be black, perhaps gray at the edges
if antialiasing is used.

Additional info:

Nvidia GeForce 4 video card, running XFree86-4.3.0-2.
Comment 1 Everett Lipman 2003-08-30 03:50:11 UTC 
Created attachment 94087 [details]
image of mozilla window
Comment 2 Everett Lipman 2003-08-30 03:50:50 UTC 
Created attachment 94088 [details]
another mozilla window image
Comment 3 Christopher Blizzard 2003-09-03 15:18:47 UTC 
I'm pretty sure that's not mozilla.  Don't know what's causing the bleeding.
Comment 4 Everett Lipman 2003-09-03 17:27:27 UTC 
Why are you "pretty sure?"  Other people have had this problem:
http://www.mail-archive.com/eug-lug@efn.org/msg14615.html
Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-04 09:23:18 UTC 
You didn't set the mimetypes correctly to that of an image file when attaching
the files.

Fixing...
Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-04 09:25:32 UTC 
Ack!  The files are gzipped TIF files..  Please make new screenshots in
PNG format, and attach them as ready-to-view in a browser.

Thanks.
Comment 7 Everett Lipman 2003-09-04 17:56:06 UTC 
Created attachment 94207 [details]
png version of first image
Comment 8 Everett Lipman 2003-09-04 17:56:53 UTC 
Created attachment 94208 [details]
png version of second image
Comment 9 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-04 18:44:00 UTC 
What you are seeing is subpixel font rendering.  Disable it in the
font-properties dialog config tool.
Comment 10 Owen Taylor 2003-09-04 19:40:34 UTC 
Note that if you are using a flat panel, and not using GNOME, this might
be bug 88259.
Comment 11 Everett Lipman 2003-09-05 00:45:26 UTC 
Indeed it is.  The solution suggested in comment 37 of
bug 88259 worked.  Thanks for the pointer!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88259 ***
Comment 12 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:21 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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