Strange semi-broken cut-looking fonts.

dragos240 · 2010-08-26 20:16:38

Hello. My fonts are acting strange. Some look like they've been cut in half, and sometimes it's just the bottom. It's happening as I type this. I can post a screenshot to show you what I mean.

Dragos240

Note the "f" in fonts, and the "f in half.

It happens with other letters too. I'm just not sure why it's happening.

dragos240 · 2010-08-29 19:44:40

My fonts are looking like they've been sliced up. It's really annoying. Does someone have this problem? I made a topic about this last week, no answer, and on this forum, I can't bump topics.

BaconPie · 2010-08-29 20:07:57

Screen shot?

karol · 2010-08-29 20:16:51

BaconPie wrote:

Screenshot?

You're looking at it: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7158 … 004145.png

Edit: OK, the threads got merged, now I get it. For a while I though you don't see the pics in the first post :-)

Last edited by karol (2010-08-29 20:24:44)

litemotiv · 2010-08-29 20:19:40

Threads merged.

dragos240, don't start several threads for the same issue. It's okay to bump your own thread after (at least) 24 hours.

litemotiv · 2010-08-29 20:38:32

dragos240 wrote:

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7158 … 004145.png
Note the "f" in fonts, and the "f in half.

What is your WM/DE, and which fontconfig are you using?

dragos240 · 2010-08-29 21:06:03

Thanks. Last time I bumped my topic I got reprimanded. I am using LXDE. I'm not exactly sure what fontconfig I'm using.

timttmy · 2010-08-29 21:16:32

I get the same thing on my system (openbox wm and fontconfig 2.8.0-1)
in the screenshot it is only happening on colour highlighted text in a terminal, but it does happen in other programmes too, most noticeably in chromium, but not today.

It's been happening for quite a while now for me ~2 months or so.

dragos240 · 2010-08-29 21:21:52

Good thing I'm not the only one!

Oh, font config is a program. Well, I have the latest. yaourt -Q fontconfg shows:
extra/fontconfig 2.8.0-1

litemotiv · 2010-08-29 21:40:30

Both of you seem to have strong hinting/auto-hinting enabled in your fontconfig, you could start by trying to reduce that. How to information is on the wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

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Strange semi-broken cut-looking fonts.

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