Public bug reported:
Gedit switches to gray-scale font anti-aliasing when the text displayed does
not fit within the window.
To reproduce the bug:
(1) Select the following font settings:
Default font: Liberation Sans, 10
Document font: Liberation Sans, 10
Monospace font: Liberation Mono, 9
Window title font: Liberation Sans Bold, 10
Antialiasing: RGBA
Hinting: Medium
Text scaling factor: 1.00
(2) Open gedit. (Optionally, make the window a little smaller so you
don't have to type so much in the next step).
(3) Type some text and notice that the font selections you made are
being used. (Take a screen-shot for reference).
(4) Continue typing more text, until the text no longer fits in the
gedit window's text area. The vertical overlay scroll bar will appear
at the right window edge (if you have text wrap enabled).
(5) Now that the text you typed does not fit within the gedit window,
notice that the text is no longer as smooth as before. (Take a screen-
shot for reference).
(6) Open and zoom into the screen shot from step 3, and then open and
zoom into the screen shot from step 5. Notice that the colored font
hinting (or anti-aliased font edges) that appearED in the screen-shot
from step 3 are no longer present in the screen-shot from step 5. The
fonts in the screen-shot from step 5 have gray antialiasing / hinting.
I have attached a screen-shots depicting this situation. The left side
of the screen shot shows gedit with good font antialiasing / hinting
(from step 3). The left side of the screen shot shows gedit with bad
font antialiasing / hinting (from step 5). I have also zoomed into the
letter "A" in each respective scenario, and pasted that into the image
to show how the font hinting / anti-aliasing changes when text does not
fit into the gedit window.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 23 14:58:48 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
** Attachment added: "Before and after screenshot showing how gedit font
rendering changes when text exceeds window size."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311734/+attachment/4094332/+files/Gedit_Good_And%20Bad_Font_Antialiasing%20%282014-04-23%29.png
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311734
Title:
Gedit switches to grayscale font antialiasing when the text exceeds
window size
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Gedit switches to gray-scale font anti-aliasing when the text displayed does
not fit within the window.
To reproduce the bug:
(1) Select the following font settings:
Default font: Liberation Sans, 10
Document font: Liberation Sans, 10
Monospace font: Liberation Mono, 9
Window title font: Liberation Sans Bold, 10
Antialiasing: RGBA
Hinting: Medium
Text scaling factor: 1.00
(2) Open gedit. (Optionally, make the window a little smaller so you
don't have to type so much in the next step).
(3) Type some text and notice that the font selections you made are
being used. (Take a screen-shot for reference).
(4) Continue typing more text, until the text no longer fits in the
gedit window's text area. The vertical overlay scroll bar will appear
at the right window edge (if you have text wrap enabled).
(5) Now that the text you typed does not fit within the gedit window,
notice that the text is no longer as smooth as before. (Take a screen-
shot for reference).
(6) Open and zoom into the screen shot from step 3, and then open and
zoom into the screen shot from step 5. Notice that the colored font
hinting (or anti-aliased font edges) that appearED in the screen-shot
from step 3 are no longer present in the screen-shot from step 5. The
fonts in the screen-shot from step 5 have gray antialiasing / hinting.
I have attached a screen-shots depicting this situation. The left
side of the screen shot shows gedit with good font antialiasing /
hinting (from step 3). The left side of the screen shot shows gedit
with bad font antialiasing / hinting (from step 5). I have also
zoomed into the letter "A" in each respective scenario, and pasted
that into the image to show how the font hinting / anti-aliasing
changes when text does not fit into the gedit window.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 23 14:58:48 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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