[Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

Petar Bogdanovic petar at smokva.net
Thu Jun 20 16:43:46 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 04:27:33PM +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 04:23:35PM +0200, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> > On 06/20/2013 03:58 PM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > >Then I guess the next build of 21.0.nix will use the old rendering
> > >again, given that the latest commit made system-cairo optional?
> > 
> > The current one does not subpixel rendering (for me). But it didn't even
> > with system cairo on my machine, I don't know why... all other apps do.
> > Aszlig said it did for him.
> 
> I just created ~/.fonts.conf and managed to set/unset antialias,
> autohint, hinting and rgba.
> 
> rgba was the only setting that had no visual effect on ff20.  I tried
> values none and rgb.  I'll try ff21 and see what happens.

In ff21, rgba=rgb makes a difference, the result looks better than with
rgba=none.  But I wasn't able to reproduce the old ff20 look.

Meh, bail, revert. ;)


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