https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227498 ------- Comment #12 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-02-14 13:59 MST ------- Felix Miyata> URL is page displayed in SeaMonkey in the Felix Miyata> screenshots. SeaMonkey for those screenshots has been Felix Miyata> set to DejaVu Sans Condensed (same as the KDE desktop Felix Miyata> setting) as preference default. “DejaVu Sans Condensed” has no byte code instructions at all. Therefore it doesn't render well with the byte code interpreter. You get somewhat better rendering results with <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>DejaVu Sans Condensed</string> <edit name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> for that font, *but* on the cost of completely messed up spacing in the digits, see bug #215602. See also the following comment I wrote into /etc/fonts/suse-hinting.conf: <!-- Switch on the autohinter for a few TrueType fonts which have no byte code or very bad byte code and look better with the autohinter: But see also bug #215602 for many fonts the autohinter seriously distorts the metrics so badly that even the digits which should be monospaced are not monospaced at all anymore. Because of this problem, better don't switch on the autohinter for Sazanami IPA DejaVu Sans Light DejaVu Sans Condensed DejaVu Serif Condensed FreeSans FreeSerif FreeMono and other fonts with similar problems until this is solved in the autohinter. --> If there hadn't been the spacing problem from bug #215602, I would have switched on the autohinter for “DejaVu Sans Condensed”. But that spacing problem is also very nasty. If that spacing problem doesn't worry you, you may switch on the autohinter for “DejaVu Sans Condensed”. You can also try to switch on the autohinter for all fonts with <match target="font"> <edit name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> But it is really a pity to do that for fonts which have good byte code, with the autohinter they are much more blurry. Look at the font in the menu bar of your Seamonkey screen shots with full hinting: This is a font which has very good byte code and renders very sharp with full hinting and with the autohinter disabled (autohinter disabled means the byte code interpreter is used if it is compiled into freetype). Using the autohinter for a font with such good byte code throws away all the hard work the font designers did put into the byte code. -- 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.