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Cimi

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From: Padova, Italy

Registered: 2006-01-16

Posts: 301

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Antialiasing broken in testing?

Antialised fonts won't work perfectly... see for example Monodoc (or sometimes other programs).
See the screenshot!!!
Xorg 7, freetype2, a lot of fonts installed...

Please help me!

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cl0wn

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Registered: 2005-12-29

Posts: 32

Re: Antialiasing broken in testing?

maybe it's one of the reasons why it's still in testing repo?

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Antialiasing broken in testing?

I guess it's due to the fontconfig update that uses upstream configuration. Some programs or websites use fontnames which are not remapped to truetype fonts, but map to your ugly 75dpi fonts instead. I could change fontconfig to disallow non-scalable (bitmap) fonts and use truetype/type1 fonts instead.

spanommers

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Registered: 2005-09-09

Posts: 10

Re: Antialiasing broken in testing?

I have been having the same issues. I looked into it a bit, and my problem appears to be with this portion of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf:

<!--
  URW provides metric and shape compatible fonts for these 3 Adobe families.
  -->
        <alias>
          <family>Times</family>
          <accept><family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family></accept>
        </alias>                                
        <alias>                                        
          <family>Helvetica</family>              
          <accept><family>Nimbus Sans L</family></accept>       
        </alias>                                                
        <alias>                                                    
          <family>Courier</family>               
          <accept><family>Nimbus Mono L</family></accept>       
        </alias>

In particular, Times, Helvetica, and Courier are rendered from the Adobe foundry (without antialiasing) instead of any of the alternatives. Incidentally, none of the URW fonts were installed (actually I think they were installed privately for ghostscript, but they didn't show up with fc-list).

Anyway, even after installing these fonts it didn't work. I tried rewriting the alias rules as match/edit rules with "same" binding, and that seems to work well, but I'm really unsure about the proper way to fix this.

BTW, I haven't updated to the moduler Xorg.