Description of problem: Please see the attached screenshots from firefox / thunderbird with fonts which look bad. In FC5 they were ok. How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. open webpage with textarea, such as this one
Created attachment 140237 [details] Screenshot-Enter Bug (Expert) - Mozilla Firefox.png
Created attachment 140238 [details] Thunderbird
I also have the bad fonts in firefox and thunderbird. ( new fc6 install ) Generally speaking, the fonts accross the whole system are bad/ugly ( compared to fc5 which were pretty good ). This causes a very unpleasant experience using fc6. Maybe this has something to do with bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210491 I know this is not a support forum, but if someone could post how to set the default system font to use the old fc5 fonts ( a a temporary workaround to this problem ), your help would be much appreciated.
Marius, it is probably too late to understand you -- what's exactly wrong with the fonts? ReASSIGNing this to more appropriate component (hopefully).
The letters seem un-aliased anymore, but I can't tell exactly. I'll try to get another screenshot when I get a more obvious case. Bug #210491 says freetype 2.2.2 fixes this. Thanks
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The bug is still present in Fedora 8 with Firefox 2.0.0.13. Here you are some more screenshots.
Created attachment 301842 [details] Red Hat Bugzilla text edit area.
Created attachment 301843 [details] Xorg Bugzilla text.
Created attachment 301845 [details] Fedora Project Start Page. Please note the bad rendering with some letters. For example in the sentence: "Red Hat is not responsible for content." some letters have not good spacing. For example between "i" and "s" in "is"; "s" and "p", "i" and "b", "l" and "e" in "responsible".
It seems to be solved in Fedora 9 Preview.
Created attachment 303055 [details] Fedora Project Start Page in Fedora 9 Preview.
Created attachment 303056 [details] Red Hat Bugzilla text edit area in Fedora 9 Preview.
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