[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 07/03/2010 02:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:22:35 Daniel Wagener wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:43:57 +0300
>>
>> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  wrote:
>>> On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>> I updated to Opera 10.60 just now.  The fonts look extremely ugly
>>>>> to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes
>>>>> on disk. Anyway to fix this?
>>>>
>>>> I do not have the same problem ... fonts look fine here.  Is your
>>>> problem perhaps related to the fonts that you have installed?
>>>
>>> Nope.  And Opera 10.11 doesn't have this problem.  Neither do the
>>> other browsers I have installed (Firefox and Konqueror.)
>>>
>>> Here's a screenshot of the problem:
>>>     http://i47.tinypic.com/8tuu.png
>>
>> Maybe you should try holding the control-key and turning the
>> mousewheel...
>>
>> or RTFM how to zoom in Opera...
>
> I fail to see how that comment is in any way useful. He's using the bitstream-
> vera font or one of it's derivatives and here on my system it works fine.
> Zooming in and out to both extremes does not cause his problem to appear here,
> so it's unlikely to be a user fault.
>
> Nikos, I just merged 10.60 and it works here. What are your local font-related
> settings?

   <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
   <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
   <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
   <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
   <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
   <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>

freetype:

2.3.12(2)(07:37:47 PM 05/11/2010)(X -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge -utils)

In case it matters, I'm on AMD64.  I also found this:

   http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/751/