2011/2/25, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]>: > 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.
After many many changes i could cleared it, before was very blurred. (maybe an incompatible setting n my /home) >>> >>>> 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> >>> Thanks, it is ok with this setting >>> 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 Ok thanks for the clarification (i'd preffer they keep their patent :D ) -- Dimitrios Glentadakis
