Bug 216321 - sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox
Summary: sarif fonts are hard to read in Thunderbird and Firefox
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: freetype
Version: 5.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-19 08:44 UTC by Dirk Gfroerer
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: RHEL5-GA
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-04-10 09:46:39 UTC
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Part of a screen shot illustrating the problem (2.32 KB, image/png)
2006-11-19 08:44 UTC, Dirk Gfroerer
no flags Details

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.


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