Re: Font uglification after apt-get upgrade EXPLAINED
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm speaking of xfonts-scalable, not gsfonts-x11. I had this problem
> on a box where I don't even have gsfonts-x11 installed, which pretty
> much rules it out.
Same for me because I had this trouble on machines where no gsfonts-x11
exists.
> If these fonts look fine in other contexts, it may really be the Type1
> rasterizer in XFree86 that is the culprit. No one has maintained it for
> years, and it is not even feature-complete ("Beziers this big not yet
> supported").
This is a real shame. You might upstream best. Do you think it would help out
if we would file a bug report which you could foreward upstream or is there just
no interest. If upstream does not care about Type1 fonts I guess they did
not noticed recent desktop movements.
Kind regards
Andreas.
Reply to: