Hi all, a few weeks ago I discovered a bit weird behaviour with settings of 96dpi and a font-size of 8pt. Using a sans-serif font, e.g. DejaVu Sans the o is not rendered correctly in some words, in special "Projekt" or "projects", thus every time when a j is near.
I'm running a Fedora 12 installation (from XFCE spin if that matters) with current updates. Please let me know if you're missing any additional information.
I've reported this issue before to the GNOME Bugzilla [1], since I assumed it may be a pango issue, but as Behdad wrote there it's maybe not. Anyway, there are screenshots of different occurrences available:
[2] Geany menubar [3] directory listing in Thunar [4] gedit [5] gedit [6] pango-view
Behdad pointed me to the freetype mailing list before, there is a bit discussion you might also want to have a look at available on [7].
I don't know if this maybe also occurs on other distributions, so it may could be a Fedora specific issue. - That's why I'm letting you know by this mail.
Maybe someone of you has an idea what could be wrong.
Thanks very much in advance for your support!
Best Regards, Dominic
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607159 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=151549 [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=151550 [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152263 [5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152265 [6] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152268
[7] http://old.nabble.com/mis-rendered-o-when-a-j-is-near-to27342904.html
No answer so I guess no one has any bright ideas (would have been nice). Your problem looks like low-level, so filling freetype/pango bugs is probably the only solution (if you're real unlucky this is hardware-specific and tied to your xorg gfx driver).
BTW: the bugs mailing list accepts mail from all the bugzillas that matter, so whenever you find a problem that affects Fedora fonts handling, just add the bugs list in CC and people here will be informed of the problem. Though so far it has mostly been useful in helping people identify duplicates, rather than recruiting developers to fix problems :(
Hi Nicolas, sorry for my late reply.
Am Donnerstag, den 18.02.2010, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot:
No answer so I guess no one has any bright ideas (would have been nice). Your problem looks like low-level, so filling freetype/pango bugs is probably the only solution (if you're real unlucky this is hardware-specific and tied to your xorg gfx driver).
Well, at least you answered, thanks. ;) I'm running a nvidia onboard chip[1] with current nouveau drivers, maybe that information is useful. I'm also willing to try out another driver (maybe also the propietary nvidia one from rpmfusion.org) if that could help.
BTW: the bugs mailing list accepts mail from all the bugzillas that matter, so whenever you find a problem that affects Fedora fonts handling, just add the bugs list in CC and people here will be informed of the problem. Though so far it has mostly been useful in helping people identify duplicates, rather than recruiting developers to fix problems :(
Okay, nice to know. Thanks for pointing this out. :)
Regards, Dominic
[1] Output of lspci: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 03d6 (rev a2)
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