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fontconfig package

Text antialiasing is green.....

Bug #1010421 reported by Brendan_P on 2012-06-08

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Affecting:	fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Filed here by:	Brendan_P
When:	2012-06-08
Confirmed:	2012-07-16

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Bug Description

grrrr.

So upgraded to Gimp 2.8 and now text antialaising is green.

Use white text on a black background to check it out.

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Brendan_P (brendan-p) wrote on 2012-06-08:

green antialiasing. Edit (113.0 KiB, image/png)

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-07-16:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gimp (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

SBKch (ssbkch) wrote on 2012-08-15:

This bug makes gimp completely unusable :( This is really urgent matter.

cagara (cagara) wrote on 2012-09-21:

Gimp was working fine for a long time,
i cannot understand why the developers have introduced this "greenish font antialiasing" bug (or do they call it feature?) in the latest release.

I have been using Gimp in a production environment and now will be forced to switch to Photoshop as Gimp became absolutely useless the moment this glitchy version came out.

Please fix it as soon as possible, this report is almost 4 months old and nothing happened yet.

Bob Johnson (f661815) wrote on 2012-11-01:

Here is a workaround for KDE (might work for others as well):

Turn off sub-pixel rendering (a.k.a. Cleartype)

Go to System Settings > Application Appearance > Fonts > Configure (Anti-aliasing)

disable sub-pixel rendering, restart gimp, problem goes away

Michael Schumacher (schumaml) wrote on 2013-06-22:

Ubuntu, please tell your fontconfig package maintainer to check https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657047

Giri M. Carlos (giricarlos) wrote on 2013-06-28:

I just purged a ppa that I used to install the "infinality" font rendering,

sudo ppa-purge ppa:no1wantdthisname/ppa

This solved the bug for me on Ubuntu 13.04, so I can go on using Gimp in my works.

Mahdi (mnameghi) wrote on 2015-05-16:

I have this bug :( this is too bad!

Blaze (blaze) wrote on 2015-05-27:

15.04 - bug is still here

Gaston Martini (hgmartini) wrote on 2015-07-09:

#10

The workaround in #5 worked for me (Kubuntu 14.04, KDE 4.14.2). I guess I'll have to remember to disable sub-pixel rendering before starting GIMP :(

Waz (paviluf) wrote on 2016-01-04:

#11

I also have this problem on Netrunner 14 (based on Kubuntu 14.04). This workaround works perfectly :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1486825#p1486825

I don't know if it's still happen on more recent version of Ubuntu, KDE, Gnome, etc... If anyone have more infos I will be glad to read them.

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gimp (Ubuntu) → fontconfig (Ubuntu)