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Cornholio

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 38

chromium fonts

hi,
I've tried almost all chromium packages in aur and fonts look uglier than ubuntu:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/158338/Immagine.png

I'm using cairo-ubuntu, fontconfig-ubuntu ecc.

suggestions?

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: chromium fonts

I read a bug about this on the chromium google code page.  Apparently no type of font rendering has been implemented yet for for X.  Think the code is largely based on safari and so all that will have to be gutted out and fixed.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=13185

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-08-30 16:06:50)

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Cornholio

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 38

Re: chromium fonts

I think that bug is outdatad. Fonts rendering support was added about a month ago... Ubuntu indeed renders very well.. Maybe I need to install some additional fonts.

Gen2ly

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Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: chromium fonts

Hmm, got libxft-lcd cairo-lcd fontconfig-lcd installed here, maybe their font rendering uses the cleartype packages instead???

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thursdayknights

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Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 28

Re: chromium fonts

I just want to say I have the same problem. I use Ubuntu's LCD font packages. They work for AbiWord, Firefox, and even for Chromium's tabs, but not for Chromium's web rendering.

Here's my ".fonts.conf".

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>

Has anyone had any success?

EDIT: I switched to the *-lcd packages and still have the same problem.

Last edited by thursdayknights (2009-11-20 09:16:17)

corsakh

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 104

Re: chromium fonts

Same here. But then I had the same problem on Ubuntu too.

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: chromium fonts

What's your font DPI, by chance? My fonts looks like butt when I first installed because Gnome decided it was an awesome idea to default to some odd ball number.. 87 maybe? Changing the DPI to 96 cleared everything up

Using the chromium-browser-bin package, build 32167

edit: right, might help to mention what fonts.

Serif: Times New Roman, 16
Sans: Arial, 16
Fixed: Monospace, 12

wtf, I need to change those. TMR is gross.

Last edited by falconindy (2009-11-18 04:26:59)

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corsakh

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 104

Re: chromium fonts

Wait, how do you set font resolution and font types in Chromium? I can only do this in DE, and it does not seem to affect Chromium in any single way.

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: chromium fonts

For font type and size, Click the spanner (top right), select 'Under the hood' tab ---> change font + language settings.

Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Re: chromium fonts

Awesome font rendering here and i'm using cairo-lcd in KDE.

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thursdayknights

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Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 28

Re: chromium fonts

I read the bug reports, and realized that Chromium pulls font settings from not .fonts.conf, but XSETTINGS. So, I tried Chromium in XFCE and the fonts rendered great.

In dwm, I use lxde-settings-daemon as a workaround. I'd like a more elegant solution, but what can you do.

Last edited by thursdayknights (2009-11-20 21:19:05)

frukt

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Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 14

Re: chromium fonts

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but in case anyone is interested - it's an open bug in chromium. So go vote up / star this bug in order for chromium to get proper fontconfig support as soon as possible (FF has had it since 3.x and behaves like a proper modern Linux app these days).