Re: Font rendering problems with cairo

[Philippe Roussel]

Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 10:47 +0100, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> Hi,
> > I feel like I am spamming the list these days, sorry.
> well, there are small issues here and there...
> >
> > I didn't follow the recent threads about font rendering so maybe this is
> > known but there are still some bugs in there. Take a look at the
> > attached screenshot.
> >
> > This is with latest gui and back, cairo backend, libcairo 1.10.2 on
> > ubuntu 11.04 32 bits and xdpyinfo says :
> >
> > screen #0:
> >    dimensions:    1280x800 pixels (339x212 millimeters)
> >    resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
> >    depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Philippe
> It looks exactly as the problem I have. It is a new  issue, cairo used 
> to work. I don't know why a rewrite should be really needed. Apparently 
> it is also affected by screen aspect ratio or certain X features. It 
> happens to me that I see it on  the internal screen of the laptop, I 
> export X11 to another computer and don't see it there.

And it seems depend on the font used. In the attached screenshot I
change the default font from DejaVu Sans to Arial.

Philippe

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