Summary: | ghostscript-esp 8.15.1_p20060430 font rendering is broken | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | xalan <xalanxerces> |
Component: | [OLD] Printing | Assignee: | Printing Team <printing> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | gentoo |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2006.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
postscript for testing
test.ps as rendered by 8.x ghostscript. Note poor font rendering test.ps as rendered by 7.x ghostscript. Contrast this with previous one test.ps as rendered by 8.x ghostscript at one level zoom test.ps as rendered by 7.x ghostscript at one level zoom. Notice the difference |
Description
xalan
2006-06-02 23:53:11 UTC
Created attachment 88236 [details]
postscript for testing
Created attachment 88237 [details]
test.ps as rendered by 8.x ghostscript. Note poor font rendering
Created attachment 88238 [details]
test.ps as rendered by 7.x ghostscript. Contrast this with previous one
Created attachment 88239 [details]
test.ps as rendered by 8.x ghostscript at one level zoom
Created attachment 88240 [details]
test.ps as rendered by 7.x ghostscript at one level zoom. Notice the difference
Comment on attachment 88236 [details]
postscript for testing
Ok i finally found how to create attachments. So have uploaded the different renderings.
It seems this bug is lying around for an year. Are there any work arounds for this in 8.x?
The behaviour of ghostscript 8.x should be more similar to that of 7.x with the (gs) option -dAlignToPixels=0, which is said to "improve rendering of poorly hinted fonts" in Use.htm. ah cool, can I enable that per default somewhere in gv? Under State -> Ghostscript Options, probably in the Antialias Device section. I added a sed call to gv-3.6.1-r4.ebuild to make that option a default option. Can you please check if it works for you? rsync mirrors should be up-to-date in an hour. Thanks for reporting and for the solution! |