Bug 672099 - Epihany default font size unreadably small (regression)
Summary: Epihany default font size unreadably small (regression)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: epiphany
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-23 22:53 UTC by Robert Clark
Modified: 2011-05-03 20:58 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-05-03 20:58:12 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Screenshot showing epiphany rendering a range of font sizes. (25.28 KB, image/png)
2011-01-23 22:53 UTC, Robert Clark
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HTML file used to generate screenshot. (4.54 KB, text/html)
2011-01-23 22:56 UTC, Robert Clark
no flags Details
Screenshot of bugzilla. (23.42 KB, image/png)
2011-01-23 23:17 UTC, Robert Clark
no flags Details
Screenshot of fark.com (51.40 KB, image/png)
2011-01-23 23:21 UTC, Robert Clark
no flags Details

Description Robert Clark 2011-01-23 22:53:53 UTC
Created attachment 474869 [details]
Screenshot showing epiphany rendering a range of font sizes.

I recently upgraded my netbook from Fedora 11 (epiphany-2.26.3-9) to Fedora 14 (epiphany-2.30.6-1) and font sizes for many web pages have reduced to the point where they're difficult to read.

The default font size now looks to be 11 pixels which, at 134DPI, is about the same size as 8 pixel text at 96DPI. For comparison, I find 13px is a comfortable reading size and had the default font set to this in epiphany on Fedora 11. That setting is gone now, but I'll file a separate bug for that. I've attached a screenshot showing how epiphany renders unstyled and styled text.

My GNOME font settings (from GConf) are:

antialiasing: grayscale
dpi: 134
hinting: full
rgba_order: rgb
font_name: Sans 6.5
document_font_name: Sans 8
monospace_font_name: Monospace 7

Comment 1 Robert Clark 2011-01-23 22:56:19 UTC
Created attachment 474871 [details]
HTML file used to generate screenshot.

Comment 2 Robert Clark 2011-01-23 23:17:59 UTC
Created attachment 474873 [details]
Screenshot of bugzilla.

Comment 3 Robert Clark 2011-01-23 23:21:39 UTC
Created attachment 474874 [details]
Screenshot of fark.com

Added screenshots of bugzilla (which sizes its text with "font-size: small") and fark.com (which sizes its text with font-size: 9pt).

Comment 4 Robert Clark 2011-01-23 23:58:33 UTC
Filed a possibly related bug 672015 (Epiphany uses the wrong DPI).

Comment 5 Robert Clark 2011-01-24 00:00:01 UTC
Whoops! Meant bug 672105. Sorry for the spam.

Comment 6 Arif Tri Waluyo 2011-05-03 20:58:12 UTC
Thank you for your bug report.

We are sorry, but the Fedora Project is no longer releasing bug fixes or any other updates for this version of Fedora. This bug will be set to CLOSED:WONTFIX to reflect this, but please reopen it if the problem persists after upgrading to the latest version of Fedora, which is available from:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora



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