[cairo-bugs] [Bug 34886] Fonts in GTK apps look ugly with LCD patch (from bug 10301)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34886

--- Comment #3 from Andrea Canciani <ranma42 at gmail.com> 2011-03-08 00:51:14 PST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=43988)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=43988)
> ~/.fonts.conf
> 
> I've been experiencing some jagged-looking fonts in GTK apps with Cairo >
> 1.8.8; I've narrowed it down to changes between 1.9.8 and 1.9.10. Reverting
> this commit:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=7a023a62f7517ad0d54f4d59c99909fadcc05e82
> 
> made fonts looks better. See the attached screenshots.
> 
> I am using cairo-1.10.2, freetype2-2.4.4 (default upstream, i.e. the bytecode
> interpreter is enabled, but sub-pixel rendering is disabled (due to patents)).

That commit replaces a cairo-internal implementation of subpixel filtering with
the appropriate api calls to freetype. This respects your system settings and
does
not work around your freetype library, hence to get subpixel filtering you
should
use a freetype library with subpixel enabled.

Can you confirm if enabling subpexel in freetype fixes your problem?

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