Inconsistent font rendering between apps

[tlvince]

With default system font settings i.e. full hinting and sub-pixel highlighting, using QT4 apps like Opera, by default, there a large inconsitancies between the font rendering. Largley, they are rendered without hinting and look plain ugly.

"Hinting/antialiasing settings set in user preferences are ignored and are set based upon symlinks located at /etc/fonts/conf.d (i.e. defaulted at medium font hinting, no subpixel hinting)."

I've noticed this since Gutsy and is still in effect in Intrepid. Thankfully, the following post describes how to fix it -- by changing some symlinks:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4683737&postcount=7

But this is a bug that should be fixed in future releases.

[Björn Nilsson (bni-swe)]

I have this problem in QT apps like skype.

Also Firefox 3.5 in Karmic ignore that i have selected full hinting under Appearance->Fonts (Why isnt this the default btw???)

This page describes the problem well and is the workaround Im using now:
http://lyncis.info/en/post/189

Works both for Skype and Firefox 3.5

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 333826, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Actually, it's a dupe of bug 346364, sorry about that.