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[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#540206: marked as done (ttf-mgopen: MgOpen Canonica hinting looks terrible)

Your message dated Mon, 09 May 2016 17:58:27 +0000
with message-id <[🔎] E1azpRr-0003O6-RG@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#819026: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #540206,
regarding ttf-mgopen: MgOpen Canonica hinting looks terrible
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: ttf-mgopen
Version: 1.1-3
Severity: normal

The text rendering of the font MgOpen Canonica looks terrible at small
sizes (really, at any size below 20). I suspect this is due to broken
hinting.

An example of some characters at size 8:
http://staticfree.info/oldshots/scap-1249571981.png

Gnome font settings: 

Resolution: 106dpi
Smoothing: greyscale
Hinting: full
Rendering: best shapes

With hinting turned off, it becomes blurry, but the shapes make more
sense:
http://staticfree.info/oldshots/scap-1249572381.png

If this is only intended to be a print font, it would probably be a good
idea to make it so it isn't shown on the screen using some defoma rules.

To give a reference for what this looks like in body text, please see
the following: 
http://staticfree.info/oldshots/scap-1249572860.png

For whatever reason (I suspect torment), the author of the blog decided
to specify this font in particular in their CSS. It'd be nice if even
maliciously-intended CSS writers couldn't hurt users' eyes in this way.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (300, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ttf-mgopen depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

Versions of packages ttf-mgopen recommends:
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-3    generic font configuration library
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf              31         TrueType and CID fonts configurati

ttf-mgopen suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 1.1-9+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package fonts-mgopen has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/819026

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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