On Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:31:09 -0400 "Andrew J. Buehler"
<wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
Hello,
>
> When I upgraded fontconfig, fontconfig-config, libfontconfig1 (both
> amd64 and i386), and libfontconfig1-dev from version 2.11.0-6.7+b1 to
> version 2.12.3-0.1, as part of a routine dist-upgrade against testing, I
> was unpleasantly surprised to see the fonts in some of my open
> applications (most notably Firefox and Thunderbird) change appearance
> significantly. Downgrading back to 2.11.0-6.7+b1 restored the previous
> font appearance. This bug report was written after that downgrade; I
> have modified the version tag by hand to reflect the affected version.
>
> I do not know what the nature of the underlying change that causes this
> behavior change is. I have searched through various fontconfig-related
> configuration files without identifying any obviously relevant entries,
> examined a diff of the source of the two versions, and tried a few
> "disable font smoothing" suggestions from the Web, without seeing any
> change in the results.
I've uploaded a new version of fontconfig on:
https://people.debian.org/~bigon/fontconfig/
Could you please install this version and then run "dpkg-reconfigure
fontconfig-config" and on the question about the hinting style select
"Full"? This is the hinting style used before 2.12 (now fontconfig uses
"Slight").
Of course to test you need to remove the manual fix you applied on your
system.
Thanks!
Laurent Bigonville
