Fedora Core 6 Common Issues

Joachim Frieben jfrieben at freesurf.fr
Mon Oct 30 07:48:41 UTC 2006


> Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> writes:
>
>> Well, when users report the same font works fine in FC5, that rather
>> points towards FC6 freetype autohinter bugs. Unfortunately it seems no
>> freetype person commented on the problem yet.
>
> I think it's a freetype issue, too. The fonts in my Firefox look much
> worse now, even if I use the same font (as in the same .ttf file) as in
> FC 5.

Font rendering regression after updating to version 2.2.1 is a known issue
for which I had submitted bug 198082. Try to install the "FC5" packages with
option "--oldpackage" and set the hinting from "medium" to "slight" (or vice
versa (?)). Truetype fonts look again better for me now. I also rebuilt the
2.2.1 package enabling "bci" but the result was all but appealing.





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