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Ugly Fonts
Posted by ajt on Mon 29 May 2006 at 21:52
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This weekend I carried out a routine upgrade of my Debian Etch workstation at work. Everything went okay (as usual) but the fonts became horrible. At first I thought I'd tinkered with a nvidia or Kontrol setting. However when I put everything back the fonts were still ugly. Qt/KDE fonts looked poor, but GDK/Gnome based stuff was awful - Firefox was almost unusable on small font web sites.

A quick question on to my LUG's mailing list came up with this:

http://bugs.debian.org/367593 I followed Michael Biebl's instructions, to reconfigure fontconfig-config (not fontconfig-conf as written) to select "Native" instead of "Autohinter", then editing my ~/.fonts.conf file. Everything looks fine again.

I followed the suggestions, and everything is peachy again.

No damage done, I can now get back to boring work stuff...

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Re: Ugly Fonts
Posted by Anonymous (82.68.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 23:51
I thought that I must have missed something, as I had not noticed any change in my fonts recently. I looked at the bug report mentioned, and someone has attached a before and after screen shot. Sure enough, I could hardly tell the difference :-)

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Re: Ugly Fonts
Posted by ajt (204.193.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 09:22
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I suppose it depends on your graphics card, screen resolution, and display technology.

On my system, I run a nvidia graphics card to a 1280x1024 TFT display via a DVI-D link. On my system web pages with small fonts were unreadable with Firefox and not much better in Konqueror.

After the fix, everything is peachy again.

I suppose everyone is different, which is okay.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Re: Ugly Fonts
Posted by Anonymous (69.176.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 17:51
I really appreciate the post as I lost a bunch of time trying to figure out what happend :)

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