No antialising with gecko, fonts are looking horrible!

Bug #59153 reported by Dennis Schäfers
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Bug Description

Since I have installed "Edgy Eft" all gecko-browsers like Firefox and Epiphany doesn't do antialiasing anymore, like they did in ubuntu dapper. so websites like gnome.org, ubuntu.com and mostly 99,9% of all websites look very very shitty, cause the fonts looking bad.

There are some fonts who are rendering correct: the font in edit boxes (only when the css code doesn't overwrite the gnome-defaults) is rendering correct - so this is the open source "dejavau"-font in my gnome seettings which looks normal and the font used on http://monotheka.mdk.org.pl looks nice too. but it the same like on windows xp with bitstream versa sans wich does antialiasing while all other doesn't do.

so it seems to be a gecko<->gnome problem, I don't know which package I could choose so I left it empty.

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Dennis Schäfers (yok-sudo) wrote :

in my opinion every font-family musst be forced to do antialiasing! and very important is msttcorefonts, cause webdesign agencies used this fonts in websites over years.

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Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy (nigde) wrote :

Well, I am seeing this too. A few more details. Not all fonts are un-antialiased, I am not sure, but to me it looks like only the TrueTypes are getting antialiased. So, about 80% of the contents now looks good to me after I went and manually switched all encodings to use default sans and sans-serif and monospace (Bitstream fonts I think). But every now and then a web page will request helvetica or some similar font by name and that looks ugly. To give a couple of examples python library reference pages have function names unantialiased. Screenshot is included.

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Dennis Schäfers (yok-sudo) wrote :

now it works for me, I haven't changed something, it seems they have FIXED IT with the last updates from ubuntu (with the release of gnome 2.16?)! so this bug could be closed! or not?

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Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy (nigde) wrote :

Actually I have all the most recent updates and it still doesn't work for me.
For sake of experiment I tried to move my firefox profile out of the way and try to strt clean and this is still happening.

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reggaemanu (reggaemanu) wrote :

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

then play with the parameter (i don't remember if the right values are automatic or natif, and the subpixelling should be on auto if i remember right)
It isn't finely configured on edgy (or at least it wasn't)

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Iuri Gomes Diniz [ CLX ] (iuri-digizap) wrote :

how to fix:

# rm ~/.fonts.conf
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

in the next three questions choose "None", "Never" and "No"

# sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

:-)

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cliffdover88 (cliffdownloads) wrote :

Dont work for me, all fonts browser's (except IE6 in wine) looks very very bad

ps:

# rm ~/.fonts.conf -- cant find nothing for erase

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cliffdover88 (cliffdownloads) wrote :
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Iuri Gomes Diniz [ CLX ] (iuri-digizap) wrote :

hum...

A screenshot when I choose answers:

Native
Automatic
Yes

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Iuri Gomes Diniz [ CLX ] (iuri-digizap) wrote :

A screenshot when I choose answers:

None
Never
No

Do you have msttcorefonts installed?

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Iuri Gomes Diniz [ CLX ] (iuri-digizap) wrote :

relative to: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4624782/Pantallazo.png

Except the text on 'text-box', all others texts seems to have anti-aliasing fonts.

I think that you don't have all fonts installed.

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