Summary: | bad font rendering after switch to xorg | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jakob Petsovits <jpetso> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | flash3001, fonts, jpetso |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
Screenshot on XFree86 with nice Luxi Sans
Screenshot on xorg with terrible Luxi Sans |
Description
Jakob Petsovits
2004-07-30 14:10:11 UTC
Created attachment 36481 [details]
Screenshot on XFree86 with nice Luxi Sans
Created attachment 36482 [details]
Screenshot on xorg with terrible Luxi Sans
Hence the changes especially in the K Menu, the italic text of the email and
the purple ebuild list of the Gentoo Packages webpage. The changes in the
Firefox menu are due to the update from 0.8 to 0.9.1 and don't belong to my
problem.
This is probably an issue of the type of Luxi fonts provided -- Type1 or Truetype. foser, can you speak more to or against that? I don't think it's the Type1/TTF issue. On the one hand, I've tried removing either TTF or Type1 folders and it still looked the same. On the other hand this applies to other fonts too, for example the Microsoft Verdana and Trebuchet MS which don't appear in different versions. did you update freetype in the process ? how did you install your system exactly, what stage ? I didn't update freetype when switching to xorg. The last freetype switch goes back to February 04 (to version 2.1.5-r1). I had a stage 2 install in July 2003, but that's long ago. Meanwhile I guess all packages should have been rebuilt. I hope that's what you wanted to read, because I'm not quite sure what you mean with "how did I install the system exactly". If you mean the xorg switch, here's my relevant genlop output: Thu Jul 29 02:12:49 2004 --> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1 Thu Jul 29 02:13:23 2004 --> x11-terms/xterm-191 Thu Jul 29 02:25:50 2004 --> dev-db/mysql-4.0.20 Thu Jul 29 02:32:07 2004 --> dev-db/postgresql-7.4.3 Thu Jul 29 11:55:09 2004 --> kde-base/arts-1.2.3 Thu Jul 29 11:55:34 2004 --> media-libs/sdl-gfx-2.0.11 Thu Jul 29 11:56:06 2004 --> dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3 Thu Jul 29 12:13:26 2004 --> app-office/scribus-1.1.7 Thu Jul 29 12:14:38 2004 --> app-arch/tar-1.14 Thu Jul 29 12:42:03 2004 --> media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1 Thu Jul 29 12:42:22 2004 --> app-arch/cabextract-0.6 Thu Jul 29 12:42:36 2004 --> media-fonts/corefonts-1-r1 Thu Jul 29 12:52:31 2004 --> media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 Thu Jul 29 13:30:01 2004 --> media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.2 Thu Jul 29 13:43:31 2004 --> kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3 Thu Jul 29 14:30:06 2004 --> media-sound/streamripper-1.60.5 Thu Jul 29 14:30:30 2004 --> x11-misc/synaptics-0.13.3 Thu Jul 29 14:31:18 2004 --> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.60.9 Thu Jul 29 15:00:10 2004 --> media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 Thu Jul 29 15:13:32 2004 --> media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1 Thu Jul 29 16:40:36 2004 --> media-fonts/sharefonts-0.10-r1 Directly after emerging xorg-x11, I only followed the forum's xorg-fonts mini howto, and that was just renaming font paths and virtuals, as far as I remember. Well I think it's Luxi indeed, but Jakob here was probably using a +bindist compiled freetype with the autohinter. So that might help, recompiling freetype with USE=bindist . Or just installing & using some better fonts (vera-bitstream-ttf). so Jakob, what's the status update on this? Well, I wanted to post the status update for a week, sorry that I'm late. Anyway, one week ago I switched from KDE 3.2.3 to 3.3, and since then the nice fonts are back again. I can't tell what triggered this, but they are as beautiful as before they were broken. They have also recovered in non-KDE applications like Mozilla and the Gimp. I didn't remerge any of the font packages like xorg or freetype or change any of the font settings. I could say that for now my problem is solved, so should I close the bug, or is that weird solution not quite satisfying? I'll close the bug, feel free to reopen if this ever crops up again. |