Bug 5610 - Xft poorly renders some TTF fonts
Summary: Xft poorly renders some TTF fonts
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Lib/Xft (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Keith Packard
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Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
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Reported: 2006-01-16 07:58 UTC by Artem S. Tashkinov
Modified: 2011-10-11 11:51 UTC (History)
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The first example (36.51 KB, image/png)
2006-01-16 08:00 UTC, Artem S. Tashkinov 		no flags Details
The second example (22.55 KB, image/png)
2006-01-16 08:02 UTC, Artem S. Tashkinov 		no flags Details
The third example (3.75 KB, image/png)
2006-01-16 08:07 UTC, Artem S. Tashkinov 		no flags Details
Firefox view source of this web page window (19.69 KB, image/png)
2006-03-31 14:26 UTC, Artem S. Tashkinov 		no flags Details
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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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