[Bug 274361] New: Firefox fonts hinting and size
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 Summary: Firefox fonts hinting and size Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: contact@i-nz.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Please for the next release of Firefox enable hinting by default by setting the following settings (no fonts.conf is required!): font.FreeType2.enable TRUE font.FreeType2.autohinted TRUE font.FreeType2.unhinted FALSE Also please make firefox not apply it's default 96dpi by making it *only* use X's via: layout.css.dpi 0 I will mark all related bugs as duplicate to this one as it sums up the situation. Regards. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 contact@i-nz.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ma2412ma@hotmail.com ------- Comment #1 from contact@i-nz.net 2007-05-14 10:48 MST ------- *** Bug 199676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 contact@i-nz.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |felix.rommel@web.de ------- Comment #2 from contact@i-nz.net 2007-05-14 10:48 MST ------- *** Bug 228559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 contact@i-nz.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mfabian@novell.com ------- Comment #3 from contact@i-nz.net 2007-05-14 10:48 MST ------- *** Bug 232508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 ------- Comment #4 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-05-14 12:03 MST ------- Using the autohinter font.FreeType2.autohinted TRUE is not a good choice for many good TrueType fonts when a freetype2 package compiled with the byte code interpreter is available. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 ------- Comment #5 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-05-14 12:05 MST ------- And why does firefox have its own variables for these settings anyway? Wouldn't it be better if firefox just behaved like all other GTK2 applications? (That's what I requested in bug #232508). -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 wolfgang@rosenauer.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wolfgang@rosenauer.org Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |contact@i-nz.net ------- Comment #6 from wolfgang@rosenauer.org 2007-05-17 06:26 MST ------- layout.css.dpi is set to -1 currently which seems to mean max(96dpi, System setting). Does it really make a difference with "0"? Before enabling freetype2 we have to find out what it means in the end. Does it make a difference? Could you show us a screenshot where we can see the difference with those settings? (In reply to comment #5)
And why does firefox have its own variables for these settings anyway?
Wouldn't it be better if firefox just behaved like all other GTK2 applications?
maybe, and maybe nobody expanded GTK support to reuse these GTK settings in mozilla yet. I almost don't have any clue about fonts otherwise I would have looked into this some time ago. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 contact@i-nz.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|contact@i-nz.net | ------- Comment #7 from contact@i-nz.net 2007-05-17 06:41 MST ------- Hmmmmmmm. I have compiled freetype with subpixel hinting on my system and it seems like Firefox uses that and ignores the mentioned configs as well as the gnome(gtk+?) configuration. Could it be that because of the missing subpixel hinting in upstream it falls back gracefuly to non-hinting or badly chosen hitning? I will attach a shot of how fonts look here, so you can compare to the ones on your system. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274361 ------- Comment #8 from contact@i-nz.net 2007-05-17 06:42 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=140774) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=140774&action=view) my fonts rendering with subpixel hinting -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
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