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From: Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>
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Subject: xserver-common: suggested modifications for dexconf about
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Hi,
here is an excerpt from the XFree docs in file README.fonts section 2.2.4:
>For best results, scalable fonts should appear in the font path before the
>bitmap fonts; this way, the server will prefer bitmap fonts to scalable fonts
>when an exact match is possible, but will avoid scaling bitmap fonts when a
>scalable font can be used. (The `:unscaled' hack, while still supported,
>should no longer be necessary in XFree86 4.0 and later.)
dexconf does not comply with this advice:
- it uses the :unscaled "hack"
- scalable fonts appear *after* bitmap fonts
Therefore I suggest that dexconf reorders the FontPath lines when writing the
XF86Config-4 file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.20-k7 #2 Sun Dec 1 13:41:25 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.21 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xfree86-common 4.2.1-5 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#178068: xserver-common: suggested modifications for dexconf about bitmap/scalable fonts
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> dexconf does not comply with this advice:
> - it uses the :unscaled "hack"
> - scalable fonts appear *after* bitmap fonts
>=20
> Therefore I suggest that dexconf reorders the FontPath lines when writing=
the
> XF86Config-4 file.
This bug was fixed back in 4.2.1-6:
xfree86 (4.2.1-6) unstable; urgency=3Dmedium
[...]
* debian/local/dexconf: reorder font path components to follow advice
given in README.fonts document; move scalable font directories to top o=
f list,
and, for 4.x XF86Config files, remove ":unscaled" lines since they are =
not
needed by XFree86 4.0 and later. Also, add CID font path to 4.x XF86Co=
nfig
files for consistency with 3.x font path configuration.
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:01:32 -0500
You'll note, however, that putting scalable fonts ahead of bitmapped
ones, contrary to README.fonts, actually made fonts *uglier* for many
users instead of more attractive.
See, for example:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D199111
Because I suspect the advice in README.fonts is actually correct when
one has non-free fonts installed, what would be preferable than the
status quo is for font packages to register the paths they use, with an
associated user-configurable priority which dexconf will then respect;
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D202096 >
describes this approach in slightly more detail.
Closing this report.
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