On Wed, 25 May 2011 14:21:10 -0600 Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/25/2011 09:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I "preupgraded" my desktop to F15 from F13 today. Everything went > > very smoothly except this issue with the ugly fonts. For some > > reason for the same font settings I get these ugly fonts after the > > upgrade to F15. I compared with my F14 laptop, they look "good" > > just like it used to on F13 on my desktop. > > > > This is a desktop wide problem. I see it in Firefox, terminal, > > emacs, pidgin ... > > > > This is what I have set, > > > > - For the desktop apps: "Sans 10" > > - Terminal and Emacs: Monospace > > > > Since all apps look universally bad, is something wrong with my font > > rendering setup? I have no idea about fonts and how they are > > managed, a pointer or two would be really helpful. > > > > To demonstrate my point see these 2 screen shots. > > > > Good fonts with F14 > > <http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/jalladandtux/screenies/emacs-better-fonts-F14.png> > > > > Bad fonts with F15 > > <http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/jalladandtux/screenies/emacs-crap-fonts-F15.png> > > I saw this kind of thing once, maybe back in FC8. From that point > on, I have religiously installed every font family I could find, and > have never seen the issue recur. > > I suspected, and proved with experiment then, that it was a > particular font family or rendering system difference. > > Here is what I have installed in F15 (you are welcome to note the > absurdity): > > rpm -qa | grep font | grep -v texlive | sort -u I have many more all those installed on my system too. There might be something else going on here. I found the following discussion which seemed related to my issue. <http://w3bfaq.com/partially-hinted-fonts> If this is indeed the case, not sure how one would configure to turn this "feature" off. I am not familiar with fontconfig at all. :( -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
