Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

since 10.0, I noticed a regression with the font rendering quality, 
especially the kerning is degraded, compared to 9.3. The situation 
persists with 10.1 (or even got worser).

I already filed a report against 10.0:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=133086
only to realize, that I'm soliloquizing.

What I've learned from trying to fix the problem myself is that 
fontconfig and possibly qt3 uses an unofficial API from treetype2 to 
render stuff, and had a hard time to adjust freetype2 cvs to provide 
the hooks. Unfortunately, I suffered from some crashes using it (could 
be unrelated), but not enough time to examine the reasons, thus 
reverted my local changes that time.

For what is worth it, I'm using the "Bitstream Vera Sans" truetype font  
for all sans serif uses. 

Getting back on topic, I hadn't compared 10.0 with 10.1, but 9.3 with 
10.1, and besides a much worser kerning, bold glyphs are notedly less 
detailed (zugelaufen). 

Does nobody noticed this regression and is concerned, too? 

It could be, that I'm picky in this respect, but font rendering quality 
is a very important factor in user experience and acceptance.

Pete