On 25 February 2011 22:48, Anssi Hannula <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25.02.2011 22:29, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> 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> > > Should be true, not false. > >> </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 >
Adding to Anssi's minute explanation; yes, the bytecode interpreter is enabled by default since version 2.4, this is an upstream change as the patents expired http://freetype.org/patents.html -- Ahmad Samir
