I'm not sure if this is a bug of something intended, but I noticed that after upgrading DejaVu from 2.21 to 2.22, italic fonts look blurry (while non italics look the same in both versions). I didn't see anything in the changelog that suggested this change. I use a BCI enabled freetype, for the rest just standard configuration. I can also confirm that downgrading to 2.21 makes the italic fonts look sharp again. I think I can't attach files here, so here is a screenshot: http://www.gnebu.es/DejaVuSans.png Thanks.
Can you give more info about what distro you're using? It looks like you somehow get "condensed italic" instead of just italic... I can only think of one reason for that now: are you sure that DejaVu Sans Oblique is installed?
Okay, it looks like some metadata problem in the condensed fonts, caused by of a buggy script to generate the condensed scripts. For now I guess you could just uninstall condensed to temporarily fix the problem while we figure something out.
I'm using Arch Linux, but I guess it doesn't matter now. I downgraded to 2.21, so I'll just wait before upgrading again until it's solved. Thank you.
We have this bug reported in our bugzilla (Gentoo Linux): http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202255 BTW. I've tried to debug this problem a bit. So I've moved back to dejavu-2.21 and did: $ fc-match -s sans:italic > fc-match-2.21 Then installed 2.22 and repeated: $ fc-match -s sans:italic > fc-match-2.22 Now take a look at difference: $ colordiff -u fc-match-2.21 fc-match-2.22 --- fc-match-2.21 2007-12-19 07:17:59.000000000 +0300 +++ fc-match-2.22 2007-12-19 07:13:47.000000000 +0300 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -DejaVuSansOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique" -DejaVuSansBoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique" +DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Condensed Book" +DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Condensed Bold" DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" So this bug could be related to: bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13608
Forgot to mention here that there's a patch on the mailing list for this bug. You can install the latest snapshots if you want the latest DejaVu version, download them at http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ We should probably release a 2.22.1 version, but the holiday season doesn't give me a lot of time to make a new release...
Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.