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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:40:03
Message-Id: 201007031336.32045.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck by Daniel Wagener
1 On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:22:35 Daniel Wagener wrote:
2 > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:43:57 +0300
3 >
4 > Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
5 > > On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote:
6 > > > On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 > > >> I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly
8 > > >> to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes
9 > > >> on disk. Anyway to fix this?
10 > > >
11 > > > I do not have the same problem ... fonts look fine here. Is your
12 > > > problem perhaps related to the fonts that you have installed?
13 > >
14 > > Nope. And Opera 10.11 doesn't have this problem. Neither do the
15 > > other browsers I have installed (Firefox and Konqueror.)
16 > >
17 > > Here's a screenshot of the problem:
18 > > http://i47.tinypic.com/8tuu.png
19 >
20 > Maybe you should try holding the control-key and turning the
21 > mousewheel...
22 >
23 > or RTFM how to zoom in Opera...
24
25 I fail to see how that comment is in any way useful. He's using the bitstream-
26 vera font or one of it's derivatives and here on my system it works fine.
27 Zooming in and out to both extremes does not cause his problem to appear here,
28 so it's unlikely to be a user fault.
29
30 Nikos, I just merged 10.60 and it works here. What are your local font-related
31 settings?
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36 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>