> Using the hinting information from fonts rather than auto-hinting is
> important, which means using high quality fonts. Source Code Pro /
> Source Sans Pro / Source Serif Pro are likely the only really well
> hinted fonts in the repositories.
Oh, actually ttf-liberation is pretty decent now that
On 28/05/15 10:22 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
>
>>> Doesn't Chromium use its own font rendering system?
>>
>> Not really. It has to do a lot of font-related work to implement the
>> web
>> standards but they're using freetype2/harfbuzz like everyone else.
>>
>>> I've noticed that on other OSes it ha
> > Doesn't Chromium use its own font rendering system?
>
> Not really. It has to do a lot of font-related work to implement the
> web
> standards but they're using freetype2/harfbuzz like everyone else.
>
> > I've noticed that on other OSes it has its own rendering style that
> > doesn't use
> Doesn't Chromium use its own font rendering system?
Not really. It has to do a lot of font-related work to implement the web
standards but they're using freetype2/harfbuzz like everyone else.
> I've noticed that on other OSes it has its own rendering style that doesn't
> use subpixel
> render
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 10:52 +0200, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the
> key
> components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having
> with
> chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but
> in
On 05/24/2015 01:52 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the key
> components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having with
> chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but instead
> has a basic
Is this issue related?
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490398
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On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
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> Xft.dpi:96
> Xft.antialias: true
> Xft.rgba: rgb
> Xft.hinting:true
> Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Cool! In my fonts.conf I also have set the autohint and lcdfilter, so
it's possible (I have not tested) that you could al
I think this somewhat improved the situation. A nicer kind of AA is now
present, and at least it's no longer blurry. But still no subpixel. This is
what I had used in ~.Xresources:
! Xft settings ---
Xft.dpi:96
Xft.antialias: tr
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
>
> I'm using xfce4. The settings > appearance had subpixel disabled, but once
> enabled chromium still didn't obey the subpixel hinting. I don't understand
> what has changed exactly with chromium, and how do I set it to have
> subpixel once
Since Xfce4 breaks things within major release updates, I don't use
Xfce4 anymore. AFAIK Xfce4 still claims to be GTK2, but I suspect themes
likely already got broken by preparation to switch to GTK3. I might be
mistaken.
$ pacman -Si chromium | grep Depe
Depends On : gtk2 [snip]
You could te
Hi guys!
I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the key
components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having with
chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but instead
has a basic AA mode, without the subpixel hinting. This of course resul
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