Bug 13720

Summary:	Italics are blurry in 2.22
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Alberto González <luis6674>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	highest	CC:	ozar, pva
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Alberto González 2007-12-18 04:06:23 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Ben Laenen 2007-12-19 03:38:07 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2007-12-19 03:54:38 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Alberto González 2007-12-19 04:35:16 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Peter 2007-12-19 06:38:17 UTC

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

Comment 5 Ben Laenen 2007-12-21 03:36:15 UTC

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...

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