Bug 486496

Summary:	app-emulation/wine-1.6 - bad quality font rendering
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexey Mishustin <halcon>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Wine Maintainers <wine>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex_y_xu
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot: difference of winecfg windows Screenshot: difference of winecfg windows (zoom) Screenshot: wine registry settings Screenshot: wine 1.6 with anti-alias disabled via fontconfig

Description Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 18:55:55 UTC

After updating wine from 1.4.1 to 1.6 the default font of the wine and most wine programs has changed. The new font has bad quality.

I'm attaching screenshots demonstrating the difference (with another machine, still running wine 1.4.1)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch winecfg

Comment 1 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 18:57:09 UTC

Created attachment 359750 [details]
Screenshot: difference of winecfg windows

Comment 2 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 18:57:53 UTC

Created attachment 359752 [details]
Screenshot: difference of winecfg windows (zoom)

Comment 3 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 18:58:38 UTC

Created attachment 359754 [details]
Screenshot: wine registry settings

Comment 4 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 18:59:24 UTC

The language is russian.

Comment 5 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 19:19:18 UTC

There are fonts from corefonts package in .wine1/drive_c/windows/Fonts. Are they supported no more in wine 1.6 ?

Comment 6 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-29 19:24:07 UTC

Both versions of wine has been compiled with 'truetype' flag.

Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-30 13:50:57 UTC

The difference between them appears to be anti-aliasing in the 1.6 version. Other than that I can't spot what you think is the obvious quality problem.

Comment 8 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-30 18:07:11 UTC

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #7)
> The difference between them appears to be anti-aliasing in the 1.6 version.
> Other than that I can't spot what you think is the obvious quality problem.

Are you sure that the font is the same? Me - not.

I have tried to disable anti-alias via fontconfig. Most fonts in X became aliased, but not in wine (screenshot attached).

Anyway, running X without anti-alias couldn't be a solution. Something doesn't work properly in wine, or... where?

Comment 9 Alexey Mishustin 2013-09-30 18:08:17 UTC

Created attachment 359814 [details]
Screenshot: wine 1.6 with anti-alias disabled via fontconfig

Comment 10 Alexey Mishustin 2013-10-02 06:31:01 UTC

Reported this upstream: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34638

Comment 11 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-03-15 21:39:19 UTC

I think this is not a problem, and if so, it is not our problem. You can find instructions on configuring fonts via Google. (try per-family antialiasing controls)