https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157153
--- Comment #11 from [email protected] --- It started in version 7.4. It was announced that font rendering was changed. Somewhat paradoxically they used the term "subpixel font rendering" to mean something different (an close to opposite) of what this term usually means. This is the post that announces this controversial change using this confusing terminology: https://adamfontenot.com/post/libreoffice_7.4_has_a_new_approach_to_text_rendering What they did, they made the font lines positioning not to strictly align with pixels (which was the previous behavior) which helps to avoid some bad situations where some letters fuse (like r and n in "rn" looking like "m"). But it makes the fonts more blurry. Plus, they disabled the subpixel font smoothing, that is using subpixels to increase horizontal resolution thrice (which is standard terminology). In the post linked above it is evident that the new rendering overall looks much worse, but some issues with letter fusing as in "rn" are indeed solved. My suggestion to solve the issue in our current situation is either add an option to revert the behavior to pre-7.4 version, or the following. * Sheet font rendering with Skia is good now, it uses subpixel smoothing * But using Skia makes fonts in dialogs and menus look bad and the buttons of the theme corrupted (garbage pixels in the bottom right corners of buttons) A solution could be to use Skia for sheet rendering but render everything else without Skia. This solves all the issues. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
