Fonts Issue after Current Update on 20101114
Hello,
I just upgraded my Current64 box, and now I got strange Sans Serif fonts, Devaju Sans seems to be the same, if I change it on the KDE settings. The really strange thing is, I had run latest X.Org-Testing from Robby, so the font- versions are equal. I run KDE 4.5.3, alienbob's build, and Multilib current stage. Thanks for any kind of infos. =) Regards, Jack. |
Maybe the update changed your font DPI? edit /usr/bin/startx and add the line defaultserverargs="-dpi 96" and see if that fixes the problem.
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Try reverting back to the previous freetype package and see if that helps.
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Don't revert the freetype package. The general idea of reverting the freetype package is to go back to autohints, but you can tell the new freetype package to autohint with just --
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cd /etc/fonts/conf.d Code:
rm 60-liberation.conf |
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fontconfig broken with upgrade
It's amazing what an effect autohinting has: I thought fontconfig was completely ignoring my font choices but they just looked like crap.
Adding the following stanza to my ~/.fonts.conf file restored autohinting. I copied this from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf (I prefer to make aesthetic changes in my own directory rather than force them on everybody). Code:
<fontconfig> |
Big thanks to everyone, for the fast help. =)
55020's solution worked quite well, now it's looking good, such as before the update. Best regards, Jack. |
I've just been working through some of the options in XFCE's appearance settings which is a good way to see which fonts look good with various settings of anti-alias, hinting, and sub-pixel order. Some of the fonts really don't do well with some of the combinations you can set.
I used to use DejaVu Sans as I've always liked the way it looks, but it seems to be missing a 'regular' style now and I can't get a decent display with it no matter what combination of settings I use. Liberation Sans 10, anti-aliased, slight hinting, subpixel-none seems to be working reasonably for me at the moment. If I turn hinting up to medium or high, bold text looks better but normal text gets a little too thin for my liking. Now, I just need to see if I can adjust the fonts/conf.d to use similar settings outside of XFCE. |
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Here are couple of screenshots. With the new freetype: http://www.upload.ee/image/973444/pilt1.png With freetype from slack 13.1: http://www.upload.ee/image/973445/pilt2.png IMHO, the last one is much better. At 96 dpi, when using font sizes above 8 pt, the new fonts doesn't look as horribly hinted as at 8 pt, though. |
Thanks a lot for this nice (auto) hint :-)
I installed Slack current and searched for a day why my (KDE) fonts suddenly looked so ugly. But when I stumbled upon this thread and just did the following (as root) : cd /etc/fonts/conf.d ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . everything worked perfectly well again and my fonts are just as nice as before ! Kees L |
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