Re: www/firefox3: font rendering regression with 3.0.9

[Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd%2009.salmi.ch@localhost>]

Jukka Salmi --> pkgsrc-users (2009-04-28 23:39:06 +0200):
> Hello,
> 
> after updating www/firefox3 from 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 on a NetBSD/i386 current
> system I noticed a font rendering regression; e.g. the NetBSD home page
> used to look like [1]this, but now looks like [2]this.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> 
> TIA, Jukka
> 
> [1] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ff3/ff307.png
> [2] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ff3/ff309.png

I just noticed the same problem on a NetBSD/i386 5.0_STABLE system.
Having a closer look revealed that it's the default fontconfig
configuration (/etc/fonts/...) shipping with NetBSD which causes the
problem.  At least removing 10-autohint.conf and 10-unhinted.conf from
/etc/fonts/conf.d fixed the problem for me.

Making /etc/fonts a symlink to ${PKG_SYSCONFBASE}/fontconfig (or vice
versa) probably makes sense in this case.

However, NetBSD's fontconfig configuration seems outdated.  I'll
probably open another thread on a non-pkgsrc list soon...


Regards, Jukka

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