Rawhide updates & Fonts

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:38 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 juillet 2005 à 16:18 -0400, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 19:28 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le samedi 23 juillet 2005 à 22:15 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> > > > Le samedi 23 juillet 2005 à 19:42 +0000, Mike Chambers a écrit :
> > > > > With a fully updated FC4 + full rawhide updates, are the fonts still as
> > > > > messed up as they have been recently, especially in evolution and
> > > > > firefox (even with the alpha one?)?
> > > > 
> > > > Fonts are still messed a bit in Firefox (size). No complaints with Evo.
> > > 
> > > Well with fontconfig-2.3.2-1 OTOH rendering changed drastically
> > 
> > How?
> > 
> > I expect no changes from that.
> > 
> > On the other hand, once we get the next set of Cairo/Pango/GTK+ changes
> > into the tree, rendering *will* change drastically ... in theory,
> > it will be identical to FC4 at that point.
> 
> Lines seem thinner, character spacing is degraded (some of them touch
> when they didn't before). I'm sorry I can't be more specific, my eyes
> are adapting and I don't have a pre-update control system to compare (so
> I must try to remember a pre-yesterday system) but the changes were very
> noticeable just after the rawhide sync. At least in evo, so maybe it's
> evo-specific, but I seem to remember the Gnome panel changing too.

I don't think this is a change with the fontconfig upgrade, but it is
the versus-FC4 delta that the next batch of upgrades should fix.

Regards,
						Owen

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