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daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

Hi all,

I am having the issue with ugly font rendering in Chrome that others have seen:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/594976/h … lay-nicely

I followed the directions in the wiki to disable bitmapped fonts:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fo … tmap_fonts

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

However, the configuration change doesn't appear to be doing anything.  I rebooted my machine after making the symlink and the rendering of small Calibri text still looks awful.  Does anyone have suggestions for what I could try next?

Thanks,
Daryl

Last edited by daryl314 (2016-05-21 12:40:29)

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

Hi all,

I am having the issue with ugly font rendering in Chrome that others have seen:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/594976/h … lay-nicely

I followed the directions in the wiki to disable bitmapped fonts:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fo … tmap_fonts

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

However, the configuration change doesn't appear to be doing anything.  I rebooted my machine after making the symlink and the rendering of small Calibri text still looks awful.  Does anyone have suggestions for what I could try next?

Thanks,
Daryl

I have installed infinality bundle, looks great. I'm on a IPS 32" 4K monitor with 96*96dpi settings in my fontconfig.

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daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

Good to know that infinality fixes the problem, but I'd like to find a solution without it if possible

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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

Maybe this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1619318 is the problem?

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daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

Unfortunately replacing the contents of my fontconfig didn't help either. Is there any way to see what the total collection of styles being applied is? Or is there some way to force a refresh of settings?

daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Disabling ugly bitmapped fonts not working in Chrome

It looks like an additional step was needed to disable the bitmapped fonts: forum post.  The following worked for me

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM \"fonts.dtd\">
<fontconfig>
  <match target=\"font\">
    <edit name=\"embeddedbitmap\" mode=\"assign\">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>" | sudo tee /etc/fonts/conf.avail/20-no-embedded.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/20-no-embedded.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/