https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c1 --- Comment #1 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-01-22 11:43:35 MST --- Other users seem to have the issue too -- screenshot: http://s5b.directupload.net/file/d/1682/9edlbk63_png.htm Could it be a problem with the bytecode interpreter? Given that user's screenshot it seems to happen only for non-antialiased fonts (hence the thought it could be the bytecode). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c3 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|X.Org |X11 Applications AssignedTo|sndirsch@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. |qa@suse.de |provo.novell.com | --- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-01-22 17:44:03 MST --- This sounds more like a freetype2 or firefox issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-01-23 02:43:07 MST --- Downgrading freetype2 to the version in 11.0 did not change anything. But bisecting (well I tested all of them anyway) on Firefox turned it up: OK 11.0 MozillaFirefox-2.9.95-25.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.8.99.5-28.1.i586.rpm 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0-0.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0-0.1.i586.rpm BAD 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0-0.2.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0-0.2.i586.rpm 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0.1-0.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.1-0.1.i586.rpm 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0.3-1.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.3-1.1.i586.rpm 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0.4-3.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.4-2.1.i586.rpm 11.0 MozillaFirefox-3.0.5-0.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.5-0.1.i586.rpm 11.1 MozillaFirefox-3.0.4-4.6.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.4-2.9.i586.rpm 11.1 MozillaFirefox-3.0.5-1.1.i586.rpm mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.5-1.1.i586.rpm There are no added changelog entries between 3.0-0.1 and 3.0-0.2. What gives?! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c6 --- Comment #6 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-23 07:50:16 MST --- Just a shot in the dark: Does it help to disable embedded bitmaps? you can do this by adding the following to your ~/.fonts.conf file: <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap" > <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> The Microsoft fonts "MS Gothic" and "MS Mincho" have more embedded bitmaps then then IPA fonts. And because the IPA fonts have embedded bitmaps only in 3 sizes (12, 14, 16 pixels) which is usesless and confusing, embedded bitmaps are disabled by default for the IPA fonts on openSUSE. But for MS Gothic and MS Mincho, embedded bitmaps are not disabled on openSUSE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c8 --- Comment #8 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-23 08:15:03 MST --- If disableing embedded bitmaps “fixes” it, it makes me certain that it is a duplicate of this other, very old bug. I thought this had been solved years ago, as far as I remember it was a firefox problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c10 --- Comment #10 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-23 08:26:13 MST --- Then it would mean that the problem has been reintroduced, I clearly remember exactly that problem as in your screenshot and that it could be worked around by disabling embedded bitmaps. If I could only find that ancient bug again, I don’t remember what the resolution was and whether it was ever really fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c12 --- Comment #12 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-01-23 08:30:00 MST --- If we knew what went on between -0.1 and -0.2 that would help a lot. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c14 --- Comment #14 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2009-01-23 08:54:59 MST --- I can't reproduce it as well.

If we knew what went on between -0.1 and -0.2 that would help a lot.

Nothing in xulrunner/firefox. These are automatic rebuilds caused by upper dependencies and if there is no changelog entry that's for sure. And sorry, can't remember a specific bug with that but it looks familiar indeed. Since rendering (including font rendering) changed so much between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 I don't think it's the same issue if it was an issue in Firefox at all. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c16 --- Comment #16 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-23 09:56:00 MST --- Jan> Got Gothic? :) Got what? If you mean whether I tried using "MS Gothic" to render the Wikipedia page in firefox, then yes, I did. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c18 --- Comment #18 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-23 12:09:45 MST --- Example taken from /etc/fonts/suse-bitmaps.conf <!-- The IPA fonts have bitmaps only in 12, 14, and 16 pixels. That is rather useless, it is not nice to see a bitmaps at 12 pixels, antialiased glyphs at 13 pixels and bitmaps at 14 pixels again. --> <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>IPAMincho</string> <string>IPAGothic</string> <string>IPAPMincho</string> <string>IPAPGothic</string> <string>IPAUIGothic</string> </test> <edit name="autohint"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> <edit name="embeddedbitmap"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> Change the font names as needed and omit the part which switches off the autohinter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c20 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mfabian@novell.com AssignedTo|mfabian@novell.com |bnc-team-mozilla@forge.prov | |o.novell.com --- Comment #20 from Mike Fabian 2009-01-29 08:37:13 MST --- Reassign to MozillaFirefox maintainer . -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c22 --- Comment #22 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-02-01 06:44:33 MST --- (In reply to comment #14)

Nothing in xulrunner/firefox. These are automatic rebuilds caused by upper dependencies and if there is no changelog entry that's for sure.

How can we fine out what those upper packages were? (BTW, other programs making use of bitmap glyphs, like wxGTK, do not seem affected either.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User captain.magnus@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c24 --- Comment #24 from Magnus Boman 2009-02-17 01:26:21 MST --- Created an attachment (id=273189) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=273189) Screenshot -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User captain.magnus@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c26 Magnus Boman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |captain.magnus@opensuse.org --- Comment #26 from Magnus Boman 2009-02-17 01:37:14 MST --- We had a patch in cairo that had not been applied for a 11.1. I fixed this up the other day in GNOME:Factory (http://widehat.opensuse.org/pub/repositories/GNOME:/Factory/) Results above is before and after this new cairo. Not sure if it would make a difference in this bug report? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468559#c28 --- Comment #28 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-02-17 06:15:22 MST --- (In reply to comment #26)

We had a patch in cairo that had not been applied for a 11.1. I fixed this up the other day in GNOME:Factory (http://widehat.opensuse.org/pub/repositories/GNOME:/Factory/)

Results above is before and after this new cairo. Not sure if it would make a difference in this bug report?

No difference. It seems that in your first screenshot, a fullwide font gets used, and in the second, the halfwidth font. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.