I've marked Bug #1311734 as a duplicate of this bug. Here is the information I had supplied with that bug (since it will not be searchable after being marked a duplicate). Also, please not that I have opened an upstream bug against gedit for this issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729126
. . . 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) ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #729126 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729126 ** Attachment added: "Before and after screenshot showing how gedit font rendering changes when text exceeds window size." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1309785/+attachment/4099572/+files/Gedit_Good_And%20Bad_Font_Antialiasing%20%282014-04-23%29.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309785 Title: blurry font as document is longer than one page and scroll bars appear To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1309785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
