Google Chrome fonts

Dauer · 03-05-2017, 08:27 AM

Hi,
My first post here for a long time. I have been using Windows and other linux distributions for some time, but have come back to slackware again since it seems to be the only distribution I really enjoy.
I have installed 14.2 64bit and have tweaked the system the way I want it. I have used a lot of time on the fonts and have followed Dugan Chen remommendations http://duganchen.ca/writings/slackware/fonts/

The fonts on the system now look amazing except for some pages in google chrome and I can't figure out how to fix it.

The fonts here on this forum does not look very good. They are blurry and colour is missing on some letters. When I zoom in they look great again, but on 100% scaling it doesn't look good. In firefox it look fine.

Does anybody have the same problems or know what is causing it?

BratPit · 03-05-2017, 09:13 AM

1.Make sure you have subpixel rendering compiled into the freetype package. Uncoment appropriate line in Slackbuild

Quote:

zcat $CWD/freetype.illadvisederror.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1

#zcat $CWD/freetype.subpixel.rendering.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1

and recompile.

2.I like this fonts .Do not need M$ fonts.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...em/noto-fonts/

and tutorial
http://www.binarytides.com/gorgeous-...-ubuntu-linux/

3. This is my custom /home/user/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:

https://ybin.me/p/61b819386466caae#u...tZATsAKT/yzf0=

4.Settings and result in Chrome:

http://www.hostmat.eu/images/75841301613699196944.png
http://www.hostmat.eu/images/11696530607546868830.png

this post

http://www.hostmat.eu/images/30447104349739651038.png

Tweak it for your needs and monitor.

dugan · 03-05-2017, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dauer

colour is missing on some letters

wut

I've seen colors added (to the edges of the characters) when font settings are misconfigured. Missing colors I have not seen.

If it helps, my personal font setup is:

install webcore-fonts from SBo, making sure to remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-liberation.conf first

rebuild FreeType for full subpixel support

have at least the following in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

Code:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
	<match target="font">`
		<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
			<bool>true</bool>
		</edit>
		<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
			<bool>true</bool>
		</edit>
		<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
			<const>hintslight</const>
		</edit>
		<!-- Ignore any embedded bitmaps in TTF, etc (Microsoft's Calibri and others from Office 07/Vista have these) -->
		<edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap">
			<bool>false</bool>
		</edit>
</fontconfig>

have at least the following in ~/.Xresources:

Code:

Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.rgba: rgb

Make sure ~/.Xresources is loaded on X start. On the WMs I use, that means putting the following in a startup file:

Code:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

symlink /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default

And... I think that's it.

Gerard Lally · 03-05-2017, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

symlink /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default

symlink this file to ... ? Please clarify, at least for the benefit of inexperienced users.

(Otherwise nice to see a summary here, because that fonts thread has grown way out of control.)

dugan · 03-05-2017, 12:13 PM

Symlink /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf to /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf

Daedra · 03-05-2017, 06:11 PM

Hi Dugan

Like I mentioned on the "optimize fonts" post I am still using Infinality on 14.2, but like you I have dumped that now that sub pixel hinting is in the stock freetype making infinality obsolete IMO. I installed the latest -current in a virtual machine and instead of making a patch to enable subpixel hinting I used your sed line, however it doesn't seem to be working. I checked the source file and it was still commented out. I made my own sed line as a test that just adds the line instead of editing the existing line like this

sed -i "636i #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING 2" include/freetype/config/ftoption.h

This worked, but could you double check your sed line and see if its a problem on my end?

dugan · 03-05-2017, 06:47 PM

Yeah, the sed didn't seem to work.

How about this?

To test:

Code:

sed 's/^\/\* \(#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING\s\+2\)\s\+\*\/$/\1/g' include/freetype/config/ftoption.h | less

In the script:

Code:

sed -i 's/^\/\* \(#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING\s\+2\)\s\+\*\/$/\1/g' include/freetype/config/ftoption.h

Daedra · 03-05-2017, 06:57 PM

That worked. Everything is cool now

Dauer · 03-06-2017, 01:24 PM

Hi,
Thank you for all the answers. As I mentioned in the post I followed dugan's suggestions from his site and everything looks really great except from some pages in chrome. Here are a screenshot from firefox and chrome. The difference is quite clear.

https://ibb.co/i4NJka
http://ibb.co/goor5a

BratPit · 03-06-2017, 03:44 PM

There is difference how both browsers display fonts but is neglible in my configuration
described above without M$ fonts. Maybe Firefox do it better :-)
But it's a matter of taste.

CHROME
http://www.hostmat.eu/images/31581788919063055903.png
Firefox
http://www.hostmat.eu/images/67659788741899194055.png

Dauer · 03-07-2017, 09:42 AM

Both screenshots from you configuration looks great. I cannot tell the difference as you can on mine. I also use the Droid and Noto fonts and have also copied you impressive fonts.conf file without any effect.
I think I might have done something wrong in my configuration. When I set up the fonts I erased all the links in /etc/conf.d/ and only linked sub-pixel-rgb and lcdfilter-default from /etc/conf.avail.

Should I link any other files ?

BratPit · 03-07-2017, 10:28 AM

1. /etc/fonts/conf.d

2. Firefox font settings

3. Check default system Sans which use FF.

Dauer · 03-07-2017, 10:56 AM

Yes !!
Now it works. I linked the files from your settings back to conf.d and moved .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf to ~.fonts.conf because fc-match did not match with Noto.

The fonts look perfect now

Thank you for the help.

BratPit · 03-09-2017, 05:40 AM

@Dauer

FAntastic.

Consider rename 50-user.conf to 98-user.conf in /etc/fonts/ to make sure other settings no override your custom settings.

If you use my custom fonts.conf , I have changed some broken and missing things for better render internet fonts.

http://pastebin.com/bYns0u1F

Dauer · 03-09-2017, 09:47 AM

Okay, done

Thanks.