Hi All, Some applications like OpenOffice have 'badly' anti-aliased fonts, since I updated Freetype a couple of months ago (see attached screenshot). Some of the characters look blurred, both in the text body and in the application menu.
I checked and found that I have two freetype packages installed (not sure if
this is causing the messy fonts):
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# eix media-libs/freetype
[I] media-libs/freetype
Available versions:
(1) 1.3.1-r4 1.3.1-r5
(2) 2.1.9-r1 2.1.10-r2 2.1.10-r3 2.3.3 2.3.4-r2
Installed versions: 1.3.1-r5(1)(18:26:12 02/13/07)(nls -tetex)
2.3.4-r2(2)(19:32:36 05/21/07)
(X -bindist -debug -doc zlib)
Homepage: http://www.freetype.org/
Description: A high-quality and portable font engine
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Then I had a look to see which packages depend on each:
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# equery depends '=media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r5'
[ Searching for packages depending on =media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r5... ]
net-im/skype-1.4.0.74-r1 (x86 & qt-static? media-libs/freetype)
net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0 (x86? media-libs/freetype)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 (media-libs/freetype)
x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12 (media-libs/freetype)
x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0_rc3 (truetype? media-libs/freetype)
# equery depends '=media-libs/freetype-2.3.4-r2'
[ Searching for packages depending on =media-libs/freetype-2.3.4-r2... ]
app-office/openoffice-bin-2.2.1 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2)
app-text/poppler-0.5.4-r1 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.1.8)
kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r10 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
kde-base/kdvi-3.5.5 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
kde-base/kpdf-3.5.5-r1 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.0.5)
kde-base/ksvg-3.5.5 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
media-gfx/graphviz-2.12 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.1.3)
media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.3 (truetype? =media-libs/freetype-2*)
media-gfx/splashutils-1.4.2 (truetype? >=media-libs/freetype-2)
media-libs/fontconfig-2.4.2 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.1.4)
media-libs/gd-2.0.34 (truetype? >=media-libs/freetype-2.1.5)
media-libs/giblib-1.2.4 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.0)
media-libs/imlib2-1.3.0 (=media-libs/freetype-2*)
media-libs/libwmf-0.2.8.4 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.0.1)
media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.4-r2 (truetype? =media-libs/freetype-2*)
media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330 (truetype? >=media-libs/freetype-2)
media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070321 (srt? >=media-libs/freetype-2.1)
(truetype? >=media-libs/freetype-2.1)
media-video/transcode-1.0.3 (truetype? >=media-libs/freetype-2)
net-im/skype-1.4.0.74-r1 (x86 & qt-static? media-libs/freetype)
net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0 (x86? media-libs/freetype)
x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.3 (=media-libs/freetype-2*)
x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.0.8)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 (media-libs/freetype)
x11-libs/cairo-1.4.6 (>=media-libs/freetype-2.1.4)
x11-libs/libXfont-1.2.7-r1 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12 (media-libs/freetype)
x11-libs/pango-1.14.10 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r2 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
x11-libs/qt-4.2.3-r1 (>=media-libs/freetype-2)
x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0_rc3 (truetype? media-libs/freetype)
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How come the same packages depend on both freetype slots? Should I remove
freetype-1.3.1-r5, or am I missing something?
Any other ideas for fixing my fonts?
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Regards,
Mick
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