FS#48836 - [fontconfig] Large fonts have poor spacing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kai Hendry (hendry) - Friday, 08 April 2016, 01:52 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 23 June 2016, 18:30 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Large sizes (required for HiDPI displays) defined in http://st.suckless.org/ which using fontconfig IIUC look fugly.

e.g.
terminus http://s.natalian.org/2016-04-07/1460030108_1036x1012.png
liberation http://s.natalian.org/2016-04-07/1460031689_1048x1012.png

Additional info:
* 2.11.94-1

Steps to reproduce:
Configure st with a large font (e.g. 48)
Look at ugly results.

I'm told this not reproducible on Gentoo, hence a problem on Arch?
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Thursday, 23 June 2016, 18:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 09 April 2016, 14:35 GMT
"I'm told this not reproducible on Gentoo, hence a problem on Arch?"

More likely a version difference or use of a different font.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 09 April 2016, 15:50 GMT
Please try 2.11.95 in testing and if still present ask upstream, if this is a bug. We ship a plain vanilla pkg.
Comment by Bruno Guerreiro (American_Jesus) - Thursday, 14 April 2016, 21:01 GMT
Also reported on Gentoo
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548836
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547150
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 15 April 2016, 12:45 GMT
Bring it there if not yet done: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=fontconfig

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