Bug 5610

Summary:

Xft poorly renders some TTF fonts

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Artem S. Tashkinov <aros>

Component:

Lib/Xft

Assignee:

Keith Packard <keithp>

Status:

RESOLVED NOTOURBUG

QA Contact:

Severity:

major

Priority:

medium

Version:

unspecified

Hardware:

x86 (IA32)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

2011BRB_Reviewed

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
The first example	none
The second example	none
The third example	none
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Description Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-01-16 07:58:16 UTC

There some fonts which Xft renders poorly. Look the attachments.

Here's my .fonts.conf file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Comment 1 Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-01-16 08:00:57 UTC

Created attachment 4355 [details]
The first example

"e", "w" letters looks extremly weird

Comment 2 Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-01-16 08:02:28 UTC

Created attachment 4356 [details]
The second example

Note "D" and "w" letters

Comment 3 Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-01-16 08:07:56 UTC

Created attachment 4357 [details]
The third example

All the text looks damn ugly (all hints in all applications look this way).

Final note: I have freetype 2.1.10 installed with

#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER

My libXft library is 2.1.8 (I have installed it manually), Xorg 6.8.2, I have
the latest nvidia binary drivers with XRender acceleration turned on. I've
tried nv and vesa drivers as well but fonts looks the same regardless of a
chosen driver.

Comment 4 Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-03-31 14:26:58 UTC

Created attachment 5142 [details]
Firefox view source of this web page window

In X.org 7.0 Release everything became much worse in certain cases.

Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-09-25 01:00:19 UTC

Keith, NOTOURBUG?

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