Bug 432522

Summary:	www-client/chromium-22.0.1229.12 - hinting problems with some fonts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark R. Pariente <markpariente>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	nikoli, realnc
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141425
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Chromium 22.0.1229.12 vs 21.0.1180.81 font rendering

Description Mark R. Pariente 2012-08-24 05:49:50 UTC

Created attachment 322064 [details]
Chromium 22.0.1229.12 vs 21.0.1180.81 font rendering

When bumping up Chromium version from 21.0.1180.81 to 22.0.1229.12 I noticed that fonts looks much worse than they did before. This is especially true with fonts that don't have much hinting, and less so with well hinted fonts. I found the following upstream issue around this:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141425&can=5&colspec=ID%20Pri%20Mstone%20ReleaseBlock%20OS%20Area%20Feature%20Status%20Owner%20Summary

I'm attaching a screenshot of the issue with 21.0.1180.81 on the left and 22.0.1229.12 on the right to demonstrate the problem. Notice in specific how bold fonts look overly bold and regular fonts look thinner and weaker with 22.0.1229.12.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2012-08-24 14:23:38 UTC

Seems like an upstream issue (nothing we can fix here).

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-08-25 13:31:18 UTC

*** Bug 432704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-08-25 13:59:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Seems like an upstream issue (nothing we can fix here).

Are you sure?  I don't think it's clear at this point if this upstream or Gentoo, so it's premature to close this bug right now.  The problem could be lots of things (missing bundled libs, whatever.)

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2012-08-25 16:10:54 UTC

The screenshot Mark posted matches the others posted to the upstream bug. Also, I just tested the google-chrome package and it exhibits the same behavior. It isn't worth investigating at a distro level in my opinion.

I'll reopen this just to keep track of it and prevent duplicates.

Comment 5 Mark R. Pariente 2012-09-09 01:59:51 UTC

Issues are fixed at 22.0.1229.36.

Comment 6 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-09-20 15:43:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Issues are fixed at 22.0.1229.36.

Excellent, closing then.