On 25.02.2011 21:22, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: > Στις Δευτέρα 21 Φεβρουάριος 2011 07:30:13 γράψατε: >> I remarked a change in fonts, they are not like before. I installed >> liberation fonts because it was missing, but stil the fonts has something >> blur, it is a little painful to read specially in white background. >> I changed the dpi, and i tried different settings (subpixel etc) without >> success >> It is like is the letter has a little margin with some little red points >> inside. >> >> It is any change to freetype2 package or is the same as mandriva ? >> >> >> > > Finaly there is a problem with the freetype2 package of mageia > You can see the screenshot, > http://www.mandrivalinux.gr/dimitrios/freetype8mdv.png
Right one looks better to me, the left one looks too blurred. I do not notice any red stuff in the text on the right-hand image. > i had the same problem before : > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56825 > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48346 > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=36173 > > I installed in my system (mageia) the mandriva package: > [root@localhost dglent]# rpm -ivh --force > lib64freetype6-2.3.12-1mdv2010.1.x86_64.rpm > warning: lib64freetype6-2.3.12-1mdv2010.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA > signature: NOKEY, key ID 70771ff3 > Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > 1:lib64freetype6 > ########################################### [100%] > > and the fonts became normal. > > There is a difference in the spec of mandriva and mageia of freetype2 [...] > It means that now the bytecode interpreter is enabled ? May be this creates > the distortion. You can switch back to autohinter by force-enabling "autohint" in ~/.fonts.conf: <match target="font"> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> Or system-wide by enabling a configuration file which does the same: ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf -- Anssi Hannula
