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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:37:35
Message-Id: 201007031636.27131.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:38:14 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 07/03/2010 02:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:22:35 Daniel Wagener wrote:
4 > >> On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:43:57 +0300
5 > >>
6 > >> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
7 > >>> On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote:
8 > >>>> On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
9 > >>>>> I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly
10 > >>>>> to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes
11 > >>>>> on disk. Anyway to fix this?
12 > >>>>
13 > >>>> I do not have the same problem ... fonts look fine here. Is your
14 > >>>> problem perhaps related to the fonts that you have installed?
15 > >>>
16 > >>> Nope. And Opera 10.11 doesn't have this problem. Neither do the
17 > >>> other browsers I have installed (Firefox and Konqueror.)
18 > >>>
19 > >>> Here's a screenshot of the problem:
20 > >>> http://i47.tinypic.com/8tuu.png
21 > >>
22 > >> Maybe you should try holding the control-key and turning the
23 > >> mousewheel...
24 > >>
25 > >> or RTFM how to zoom in Opera...
26 > >
27 > > I fail to see how that comment is in any way useful. He's using the
28 > > bitstream- vera font or one of it's derivatives and here on my system it
29 > > works fine. Zooming in and out to both extremes does not cause his
30 > > problem to appear here, so it's unlikely to be a user fault.
31 > >
32 > > Nikos, I just merged 10.60 and it works here. What are your local
33 > > font-related settings?
34 >
35 > <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
36 > <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
37 > <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
38 > <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
39 > <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
40 > <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
41 >
42 > freetype:
43 >
44 > 2.3.12(2)(07:37:47 PM 05/11/2010)(X -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge -utils)
45 >
46 > In case it matters, I'm on AMD64. I also found this:
47 >
48 > http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/751/
49
50 Previous versions used to have the qt-static flag in them, the 10.60 does not.
51 All I can say is that over here fonts look anti-aliased - so I am not sure
52 what's causing your problem - could it be related to your desktop manager?
53 --
54 Regards,
55 Mick

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