DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

[Cam]

Michal, list,

> OTOH it seems that DejaVu shows up by default in an ExtraLight
> weight.  If this is indeed the case then on many displays Book
> seems to be better.

Is it right that ExtraLight should be so thin that it's unusable?

I have seen it as unusably thin on a machine (upgraded from FC5 to FC6t1 
using yum). It is a bit of an unusual setup so I haven't reported a bug 
so far. I manually installed DejaVu for FC5, then removed it and 
reinstalled after upgrading to FC6. I have set the DPI to 108, which is 
less than the actual DPI (140 ish), and not the default of 96. I tried 
out DejaVu and some characters seem to render badly - the 'c' is larger 
than other lowercase characters, and upper case characters with curves 
'O' and 'D' can render with the parts of the curve faded to nothing.

I plan to do a clean install of FC6t2 but in the meantime if there's 
anything I should do to test / debug and give feedback, let me know. 
Some guidance on the DPI setting would be useful.


-Cam

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camilo at mesias.co.uk                                                 <--