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 Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:46 pm Post subject: chromium fonts look fuzzy [solved] |
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I've seen a few posts in reference to this build and wanted to see if there is an update on a solution.
azzerare ~ # uname -a
Linux azzerare 3.10.25-gentoo #3 SMP Sun Jan 19 07:56:12 PST 2014 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Version 33.0.1750.117 (252094)
http://96.41.200.95/gentoo/chromium-fonts-140227.png
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cwc
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:01 pm Post subject: solved |
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This did not help:
emerge arphicfonts bitstream-cyberbit droid ipamonafont ja-ipafonts takao-fonts wqy-microhei wqy-zenhei
But this did:
- Open in chromium
chrome://extensions/
- Enable Developer mode.
- Add the two files spelled correctly in a folder. I used: /home/cwc/chromium-extensions/
/home/cwc/custom-chromium/Custom.css
/home/cwc/custom-chromium/manifest.json
Custom.css
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@font-face { font-family: 'Helvetica'; src: local('Arial')}
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manifest.json
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{
"name": "Fix Helvetica",
"description": "Fix Helvetica",
"version": "0.1",
"content_scripts": [ {
"css": [ "Custom.css" ],
"matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ]
} ],
"manifest_version": 2
}
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katfish
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I have the same issue. How can I add the font settings you posted to my chrome extentions? |
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cwc
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| katfish wrote: | | I have the same issue. How can I add the font settings you posted to my chrome extentions? |
Sorry for the lack of info. I was in a rush. Hope this helps.
- Open in chromium
chrome://extensions/
- Enable Developer mode.
- Add the two files spelled correctly in a folder. I used: /home/cwc/chromium-extensions/
/home/cwc/custom-chromium/Custom.css
/home/cwc/custom-chromium/manifest.json
Custom.css
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@font-face { font-family: 'Helvetica'; src: local('Arial')}
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manifest.json
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{
"name": "Fix Helvetica",
"description": "Fix Helvetica",
"version": "0.1",
"content_scripts": [ {
"css": [ "Custom.css" ],
"matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ]
} ],
"manifest_version": 2
}
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Click "Load unpacked extensions . . ." and restart.
http://96.41.200.95/gentoo/chrome-extensions.png
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Thx cwc  |
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alayim
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Overriding the fonts in chrome might work, but it doesen't necessarily solve the core problem.
It might happen in Firefox or other browsers and programs as well.
I found the problem to be that the system prefered the ugly bitmap-fonts to the TTF-fonts.
You can disable the bitmap-fonts by:
1. List font configs
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
2. Locate the 70-no-bitmaps.conf
3. Enable it to disable the bitmap fonts.
Also, if 70-yes-bitmaps.conf is enabled, disable it.
| Code: | eselect fontconfig enable 70-no-bitmaps.conf
eselect fontconfig disable 70-yes-bitmaps.conf |
4. Reboot your system, or if you're lazy, update your font cache
5. Exit and start the program with the bad-looking fonts. See if the problem is gone |
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twork
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Hm. I'm having the same problem, or at least the same symptoms, but enabling no-bitmaps makes things worse.
It doesn't change the way my chromium renders some elements with ugly fonts, and it turns all my terminals (various fixed-width fonts) blurry.
I haven't tried the initially-posted "bandaid" fix yet, may try it later but yeah, would rather get at the root of the problem.
EDIT: Found this very similar thread, marked "solved", but I'm not sure it's the case there either:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-984870-start-25-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html
Some entries in that thread claim this is an upstream problem in Chrome...? |
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alayim
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What's the output of your
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
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Also, to get nice looking fonts, I've read you should have the following use-flags enabled:
| Code: | | truetype type1 cleartype corefonts |
Try adding them to your useflags, and re-emerge your world.
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twork
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| alayim wrote: | What's the output of your
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
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Patching output below.
| alayim wrote: | Also, to get nice looking fonts, I've read you should have the following use-flags enabled:
| Code: | | truetype type1 cleartype corefonts |
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Haven't actually tired that yet, but a quick run of ''equery u'' shows that the only change would be to rebuild imagemagick, which currently has corefonts switched off. Otherwise there's no change.
Output from 'eselect fontconfig list' follows. | Code: | Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
[1] 10-autohint.conf
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
[4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[8] 10-unhinted.conf
[9] 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
[10] 11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
[11] 11-lcdfilter-light.conf
[12] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[13] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
[14] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
[15] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
[16] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[17] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
[18] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[19] 31-cantarell.conf
[20] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[21] 42-luxi-mono.conf *
[22] 45-latin.conf *
[23] 49-sansserif.conf *
[24] 50-user.conf *
[25] 51-local.conf *
[26] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
[27] 57-dejavu-sans.conf *
[28] 57-dejavu-serif.conf *
[29] 59-google-droid-sans-mono.conf *
[30] 59-google-droid-sans.conf *
[31] 59-google-droid-serif.conf *
[32] 60-latin.conf *
[33] 62-croscore-arimo.conf
[34] 62-croscore-cousine.conf
[35] 62-croscore-symbolneu.conf
[36] 62-croscore-tinos.conf
[37] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[38] 65-khmer.conf
[39] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[40] 69-unifont.conf *
[41] 70-no-bitmaps.conf
[42] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[43] 80-delicious.conf *
[44] 90-synthetic.conf *
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alayim
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Here's my enabled list, which seems very smooth for my use.
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[1] 10-autohint.conf *
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
[4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[8] 10-unhinted.conf *
[9] 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
[10] 11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
[11] 11-lcdfilter-light.conf *
[12] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
[13] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[14] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
[15] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf
[16] 25-ttf-arphic-ukai-render.conf *
[17] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-bitmaps.conf
[18] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf
[19] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[20] 30-metric-aliases.conf
[21] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[22] 35-ttf-arphic-ukai-aliases.conf
[23] 35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf
[24] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[25] 41-ttf-arphic-ukai.conf
[26] 41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
[27] 42-luxi-mono.conf *
[28] 45-latin.conf *
[29] 49-sansserif.conf *
[30] 50-user.conf *
[31] 51-local.conf
[32] 57-dejavu-sans.conf *
[33] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
[34] 57-dejavu-serif.conf *
[35] 60-latin.conf *
[36] 60-liberation.conf
[37] 64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
[38] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[39] 65-khmer.conf
[40] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[41] 69-unifont.conf *
[42] 70-no-bitmaps.conf *
[43] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[44] 75-ttf-arphic-ukai-select.conf *
[45] 80-delicious.conf *
[46] 90-synthetic.conf *
[47] 90-ttf-arphic-ukai-embolden.conf
[48] 90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf *
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I'm no guru on font selection, so I'm just doing guesswork,
but if you want to try to tweak your config to look more or less like this one, pay special attention to:
- the combination of the 70-no-bitmaps.conf and 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
- 10-unhinted.conf
- 11-lcdfilter-light.conf
- possibly 30-metric-aliases.conf
Remember to update your font cache as described above and restart the application in question. 
If this doesen't help, I'm out of options |
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disperato
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hi, I was having the same issue, but a bit of investigation led me to conclude the problem was a bit wider, related to fonts rendering in certain programs, not fonts rendering in a one browser.
Basically I tried to install the few "western" fonts missing on my system that were suggested by the post-emerge message for chrome. No improvement.
Then I installed maxthon, nice browser under windows, with an ebuild in the gentoo-zh overlay. Yet, no improvement.
Maxthon is chromium based, but 32 bit, I'm on a 64 bit system. In short I have opera32, maxthon32, firefox64, chrome64.
My need for chrome is because it ships a properly working (out of the box) flash player that does not crash, whilst being the latest 12.xx bleeding-edge version (and too many so called web designer are monkeys uncapable to migrate to html5 instead of continuing the adobe flash nightmare).
Now you have the general picture. Let's see the main issue about fonts.
thanks to this post http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linux-with.html
I was lead to try infinality, that definitively solved the issue. It's in portage, thus just installed and configured as follows:
| Code: | # emerge eselect-infinality fontconfig-infinality -p
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-infinality-1
[ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-lcdfilter-1
[ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-infinality-20130404 USE="nyx"
[ebuild R ] media-libs/freetype-2.4.11 USE="infinality*"
The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by media-libs/fontconfig-infinality-20130404
# required by fontconfig-infinality (argument)
=media-libs/freetype-2.4.11 infinality |
set the use flag for freetype, and went on:
| Code: | | # emerge eselect-infinality fontconfig-infinality -quiet-build |
| Code: | # eselect infinality list
Available styles:
[1] debug
[2] infinality
[3] linux
[4] nyx
[5] osx
[6] osx2
[7] win7
[8] win98
[9] winxp
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| Code: | | # eselect infinality set 3 |
| Code: | # eselect lcdfilter list
Available styles:
[1] custom
[2] default
[3] infinality
[4] infinality-classic
[5] infinality-nudge
[6] infinality-push
[7] infinality-sharpened
[8] infinality-shove
[9] linux
[10] nyx
[11] osx
[12] ubuntu
[13] vanilla
[14] windows-7
[15] windows-7-light
[16] windows-xp
[17] windows-xp-light
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| Code: | | # eselect infinality set 9 |
started google-chrome and maxthon.. et voila', nice fonts on those failing pages.
Ironically a page that was failing before is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium  thus I used it as a test-page, along with a few others.
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Blangero
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| alayim wrote: | What's the output of your
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
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Also, to get nice looking fonts, I've read you should have the following use-flags enabled:
| Code: | | truetype type1 cleartype corefonts |
Try adding them to your useflags, and re-emerge your world.
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This helps!! Thanks very much!! |
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filesyst3m
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:07 am Post subject: Thanks |
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This help me !!
| alayim wrote: | Overriding the fonts in chrome might work, but it doesen't necessarily solve the core problem.
It might happen in Firefox or other browsers and programs as well.
I found the problem to be that the system prefered the ugly bitmap-fonts to the TTF-fonts.
You can disable the bitmap-fonts by:
1. List font configs
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
2. Locate the 70-no-bitmaps.conf
3. Enable it to disable the bitmap fonts.
Also, if 70-yes-bitmaps.conf is enabled, disable it.
| Code: | eselect fontconfig enable 70-no-bitmaps.conf
eselect fontconfig disable 70-yes-bitmaps.conf |
4. Reboot your system, or if you're lazy, update your font cache
5. Exit and start the program with the bad-looking fonts. See if the problem is gone |
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