SID as of today (18/03)
xfree 4.2.1-6 (or manually installed 4.3) libxft2 2.1-8 (or yesterday's 2.1-7) libfreetype6 2.1.3+2.1.4rc2-3 (or 2.1.3-10 - no difference) fontconfig 2.1.92-2 (or older version as of last week) KDE 3.1.1-1
TT fonts look mostly extremely bad with some font sizes.
I use AA, but not if size > 6 and < 10. No sub-pixel hinting. Tried to disable the size limitation for AA, no difference.
For example:
Verdana, size 9, regular (=non-bold, non-italic) "D" is stretched in its round part; bold "r" and "t" are to wide, lasting almost into the next character; regular "w" has too thick middle-lines; "k" has a too short line upwards; etc etc. Generally, bold causes even worse results; funny: Courier New bold size 10 is exactly as high as size 9, but some letters are wider.
I tried going back to freetype 2.1.3-10, no avail.
Tried an older version of fontconfig, no avail.
And yes, I ran fc-cache -f -v every time. And yes, what I see is actually "Verdana" and no bitmap-substitute. Fontpaths in XF86Config-4, fonts.conf / local.conf are correct. fc-list lists all fonts.
Some other people seem to have noticed this too (See "Arial 9pt" thread) but it got quiet around here last week.
Interestingly, I have no problems with the console (or should I say konsole?) font.
Can displaying a font be that hard...?
Which package might be responsible for this mess?
-- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.winischhofer.net/
