#457277 disable URW Palladio L (Palatino) hinting

Package:
fontconfig-config
Source:
fontconfig
Description:
generic font configuration library - configuration
Submitter:
Filip Van Raemdonck
Date:
2013-12-06 19:33:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#457277#5
Date:
2007-12-21 09:03:34 UTC
From:
To:
As demonstrated and explained on
http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/palatino.html the URW Palladio L font looks
awful on X when hinting is enabled; the fix supplied on the same page is
trivial and works great.

Please provide this snippet in /etc/fonts/conf.d:


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/palatino.html -->
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
	<test name="family">
		<string>URW Palladio L</string>
	</test>
	<edit name="hinting">
		<bool>false</bool>
	</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  900 testing         security.debian.org
  900 testing         ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be
   10 unstable        ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be
--- Package information. ---
Depends                 (Version) | Installed
=================================-+-===========
debconf                 (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.14
 OR debconf-2.0                   |
ucf                     (>= 0.29) | 3.001
ttf-dejavu                        | 2.19-1
 OR ttf-bitstream-vera            | 1.10-7
 OR ttf-freefont                  |
 OR gsfonts-x11                   | 0.20
 OR msttcorefonts                 |
#457277#10
Date:
2012-11-18 17:53:12 UTC
From:
To:
tags 457277 + unreproducible
tags 457277 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Filip,

Filip Van Raemdonck wrote (21 Dec 2007 09:03:34 GMT) :

(Sorry for the delay...)

I run current Debian Wheezy with autohinting enabled:

    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>

... and I cannot reproduce the bug described on that web page.
When viewing the example at the bottom of the page, I can see neither
the "T" nor the "f" wrong heights I can see on the "bad" screenshot.
The rendering on my display looks much more like the "good" screenshot
than like the buggy one.

Can you reproduce this ancient bug on current Debian testing or
unstable, or should we close this bug?

Cheers,
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#457277#19
Date:
2013-12-06 19:27:56 UTC
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intrigeri wrote (18 Nov 2012 17:53:12 GMT) :

Ping?

Cheers,
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