Comment 20 for bug 379761

screenshot attached.

url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization

pango-view -t "avoid repeated calculations - 3.5" --backend=xft
--font="Tahoma 11"

pango-view -t "avoid repeating calculations - 3.0" --backend=cairo
--font="Tahoma 11"

2009/7/3 Mohamed Bana <email address hidden>

> seems to work in FF 3.0.
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> 2009/7/3 Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
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>> @nanotube: ... and yes, file a bug upstream (from what i understand its
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>> not the bug mbana has filed this bug for - I adjusted the title
>> accordingly). If you want, file a new bug here too, where we can link
>> the bugzilla bug to and track the progress.
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>> FF 3.5 font hinting wrong in content area
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379761
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>> of the bug.
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>> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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>> Bug description:
>> Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
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>> asac, ask that I create a new account and observe if the FF 3.5 uses the
>> gnome appearance settings, it seems that it doesn't.
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>> I set my gnome settings to *hint full*.
>> http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9426/74100265.png, FF 3.1 (on the
>> right) is hinting correctly. F 3.5 isn't, it seems to be using *hint
>> slight*. Have a look at the gnome taskbar and the FF 3.5 menu bar the
>> renderings clearly aren't the same.
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>> Is the hinting hardcoded somewhere?
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>> ProblemType: Bug
>> Architecture: amd64
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
>> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>> Package: firefox-3.5 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
>> ProcEnviron:
>> SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
>> PATH=(custom, user)
>> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>> SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
>> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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