[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 8097] latest fedora dejavu update looks really bad

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------- Additional Comments From benlaenen at gmail.com  2006-09-01 08:05 -------
First, to make sure this isn't a problem of font caching, type "fc-cache" (not 
as root, as normal user) in a terminal window and logout and login again (to 
be really sure restart X as well). If the problem didn't go away, read on:

The font settings in your new screenshot still look exactly the same as your 
first one, so adjusting the settings didn't take any effect apparently. I'm 
not familiar with the dialogs in Gnome so I can't help you with that. Or you 
forgot to restart the application you took the screenshot in (note that in 
firefox all separate windows must be closed).

The screenshot I'm asking for should still have hinting applied, so you 
shouldn't turn that of. You can also keep antialiasing on (probably called 
smoothing there). I only want to have a shot without the subpixel hinting (if 
you zoom in in your screenshot, and see only gray pixels around the letters 
and no colours, you found the way to do it well). I hope the Gnome dialogs 
allow you to set specifically that though (if you have KDE installed, you can 
set it in KControl). The only other alternative other than that is to edit 
your fonts.conf file. If you do that you should have these lines in your 
~/.fonts.conf:

 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>

I really can't get the "t" to look the same on my system either. I tried all 
combinations of autohinter enabled/disabled and subpixel enabled/disabled, and 
the "t" always has the horizontal bar extending to the left of the vertical 
bar (like in the smaller font size in the left column of your thirds 
screenshot).

The fact that this also suddenly appears with the 2.9 is also very strange, 
because there were no changes made to it at all. Did you update other packages 
as well, like FreeType ?
          
     
     
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