[Bug 1036220] New: Font hinting and aliasing not properly configured on fresh Fedora 19 install.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036220 Bug ID: 1036220 Summary: Font hinting and aliasing not properly configured on fresh Fedora 19 install. Product: Fedora Version: 19 Component: fontconfig Severity: high Assignee: tagoh(a)redhat.com Reporter: alxgrtnstrngl(a)gmail.com QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org CC: fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, pnemade(a)redhat.com, tagoh(a)redhat.com Created attachment 830756 --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=830756&action=edit These are the configurations for 10-antialias.conf and 10-hinting-slight.conf Description of problem: The fonts in Fedora 19 look odd, thin and the font alignment is totally off resulting in unreadable or very poor quality text. Setting Gnome Shell's or even Mate's anti-aliasing font-configuration here does nothing to enhance text quality. Web-pages in browsers such as Chrome and Firefox look ugly and strange. Other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Unixes like Mac OS X do not have this problem, on fresh installs fonts look crisp, beautiful and full. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) How reproducible: Do a fresh install of Fedora 19 from the install images, look at the fonts. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a fresh install of Fedora 19 from the install images. 2. Attempt to use the desktop environment settings to adjust the font aliasing and hinting. 3. Look at text rendering versus that in other distributions. Actual results: Text is rendered in a very odd and thin way, kerning is also off and the fonts characters are misaligned, in Fedora resulting in a degraded visual experience especially in web-browsers, Expected results: Text should render in a similar beautiful and smooth fashion the way it does on other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Unixes such as Mac OS X. Additional info: Manual configuration is required to fix this by creating the proper symbolic links between '/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/' and '/etc/fonts/conf.d' for the following configurations which are installed in 'conf.avail' but just never configured out of the box: '/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf' '/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf' It also requires the creation of the following two font configurations which are attached to this bug report and the creation of the corresponding symbolic links in '/etc/fonts/conf.d': '/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-antialias.conf' '/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf' External References: http://ruturaj.net/tweaking-gnome3-fedora-fonts-like-ubuntu/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/token.cgi?t=cPiM5zwPQy&a=cc_unsubscribe