Bug 216321 – sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox

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Bug 216321 - sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox

Summary:	sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	freetype (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Reported:	2006-11-19 03:44 EST by Dirk Gfroerer
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Fixed In Version:	RHEL5-GA
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Last Closed:	2007-04-10 05:46:39 EDT
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Description Dirk Gfroerer 2006-11-19 03:44:40 EST

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 03:44:40 EST

Created attachment 141578 [details]
Part of a screen shot illustrating the problem

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2006-11-19 20:14:54 EST

core X fonts are pretty irrelevant here, since firefox uses pango for rendering.
Reassigning to freetype.

Comment 3 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2007-02-07 15:51:17 EST

-- uses pango.. reassigning to freetype...  
-- huh? why not pango?

Comment 4 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2007-04-05 19:01:26 EDT

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 08:46:40 EDT

Reporter, could you please confirm comment 4?

Comment 6 Dirk Gfroerer 2007-04-10 04:16:48 EDT

Yes, this seems to be fixed in RHEL 5 final.

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