Package: fontconfig Version: 2.8.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist
Hello, I was wondering why Iceweasel displays some pages in very ugly way - some glyphs were sharp, others were somewhat fuzzy and different size/weight. It turned out that - the page selects Tahoma as the preferred font - wine installs a Tahoma font - the Tahoma from wine has some (extended) Latin glyphs present only as outlines, not bitmaps - bitmaps are used for the Lating glyphs that have them, outlines otherwise This could be prevented if fontconfig pruned the bitmaps for ranges that are incomplete. eg in this case the font has some glyphs in Basic Latin and Extended Latin *, and some of the glyphs in Extended Latin * are present only as outlines. As all the Latin ranges are supposed to work together bitmaps should be turned off for the Latin ranges so that all the glyphs are rendered the same. I am not sure how glyphs like 'fi' fit into this, though. If fontconfig cannot affect what font features are used by applications then perhaps this should be handled by freetype/pango/whatever does that. Still fontconfig is supposed to be a central place for these kinds of settings. It would be ugly to do separately in every toolkit. Thanks Michal -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable'), (107, 'natty-updates'), (107, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii fontconfig-config 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime fontconfig recommends no packages. Versions of packages fontconfig suggests: ii defoma 0.11.11 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
