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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

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[gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

since the last version of gsfonts (20150808-1) some web sites have a bad rendering for some fonts, the display is ugly,

if I downgrade to the previous version of gsfonts ( 20150122-1 ) all is ok, so there is a problem with gsfonts 20150808-1 version,

for example I notice the problem with this website :

http://forums.lenodal.com/

I made a screenshot, with the previous version of gsfonts ( 20150122-1 ) all is ok :

http://reho.st/self/47d91dbee912a5c614f … 4adc51.jpg

but with the last version of gsfonts the fonts seems ugly, not good :

http://reho.st/self/32695cb2b1eb6f518bd … fbcc88.jpg

I use this fontconfig configuration file :
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45938?getfile=13272

Am I alone with this problem ?

justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

No, I'm having it too.

Certain fonts are appearing different now. I tested it with my usual fontconfig (THIS one from the Wiki) and with no fontconfig file (default). No matter which, both had "uglier" fonts on those affected websites. I'll try to narrow it down to which fonts are affected later.

edit: turns out fontconfig uses now a different matching font for certain fonts. The workaround from below helps.

Last edited by justasug (2015-08-14 12:35:37)

Potomac

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Posts: 551

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

I made a bugreport but unfortunately it has been closed :

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45938

Last edited by Potomac (2015-08-11 23:40:51)

loafer

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Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

Did you report it upstream as advised?

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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

I don't find the web link for gsfonts in order to create a bugreport,

the website seems to be a git website :

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core35-fonts.git

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

I tried to rebuild gsfonts package by testing each commit,

the problem begins with commit 24de0b9eb8fdb96b2446fe24c17b537a947cec22 :

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core3 … 7a947cec22

and it gets worse with the last commit e5b3fce0aadb091699b409be325468c682bd436d :

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core3 … c682bd436d

you can see the log for commits here :

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core3 … .git;a=log

the two last commits bring the bug, maybe it's also a problem with fontconfig, see the bug FS#45928 :
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45928

I will try this patch for fontconfig in order to see if it solves the problem

Potomac

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Posts: 551

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

I build a new fontconfig package with the 2 patches from FS#45928 (0001-Revert-Bug-73291-poppler-does-not-show-fl-ligature.patch and 0002-Update-aliases-for-new-URW-fonts.patch ) , and the things get worse, it doesn't solve the problem, even If I downgrade the gsfonts package,

the only workaround for me is to use fontconfig 2.11.1-1 and a previous version of gsfonts, or to find a way to force firefox ( or fontconfig ) to use a specific font instead of the default provided by gsfonts-20150808-1 ),

Last edited by Potomac (2015-08-12 13:50:53)

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

a new workaround is to add this in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<alias binding="same">
<family>Helvetica</family>
<accept>
<family>Liberation Sans</family>
</accept>
</alias>

it solves the problem with phpbb forums for the fonts

Last edited by Potomac (2015-08-12 20:59:56)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [gsfonts] ugly fonts on some web sites

copied from commit  e5b3fce0aadb091699b409be325468c682bd436d  :

author    Chris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>   
    Mon, 29 Jun 2015 06:39:31 +0000 (07:39 +0100)
committer    Chris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>

Best way to "report" the issue seems to be to send chris Liddel an email.

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