Comment 3 for bug 10049

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Shaya Potter (spotter) wrote :

at least on my laptop (1600x1200 T42p) if I have subpixel rendering on w/ the
autohinters the fonts look really ugly as there's only what I can refer to as
"color bleeding". I always turn it off (heck, I turned off everything in
loca.conf as gnome takes care of the subpixel stuff anyways)

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm also a bit dubious over this change in general -- they've actually switched
> the autohinter off for subpixel rendering, and I don't see where the change to
> turn the bytecode interpreter on is. This reverts the previous change which
> made all the fonts much crisper and shinier (to my eyes).