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[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#468219: marked as done (ttf-dejavu: augment font lisibility for small font size)

Your message dated Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:01:22 +0200
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and subject line Re: ttf-dejavu: augment font lisibility for small font size
has caused the Debian Bug report #468219,
regarding ttf-dejavu: augment font lisibility for small font size
to be marked as done.

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Package: ttf-dejavu
Version: 2.23-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm using deja vu sans font on my laptop, wich has a SXGA+ (1400×1050) 14" 
display. This means ~125dpi, wich is nice. But at 125dpi, 12pt fonts are way
too big, so I use 7 and 8pt fonts. At these sizes. it seems that some
characters (especially “ and ”) aren't fully rendered. For example, at 7pt, “
and ” both look like ".

It'd be nice if even at small sizes fonts were rendered perfectly :)

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttf-dejavu depends on:
ii  ttf-dejavu-core               2.23-1     Vera font family derivate with add
ii  ttf-dejavu-extra              2.23-1     Vera font family derivate with add

ttf-dejavu recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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On ven, 2008-03-07 at 21:56 +0100, Ben Laenen wrote:
> TrueType fonts have a system called hinting which aligns the outlines
> to 
> the pixels of a screen. Since we can't make those characters wider
> than 
> 1 pixel at those small sizes, we have to make them rectangular like 
> that. The other option would be gray rectangles.

Ok, in fact using autohinting in fontconfig-config makes this really
better. So I'll consider the bug closed. 

Thanks for you time.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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