Hi! After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious. A possible workaround is attached: a blacklist for fonts (not yet committed). What do you think? Sebastian PS: strcasecmp may not be portable.
On Di, Sep 15, 2015, August Karlstrom wrote:
On 2015-09-15 20:55, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious.
I run Debian Jessie too and I haven't noticed any ugly fonts. Can you provide an example?
Helvetica, e. g., which looks rather pixelated, as compared to other nicely rendered fonts. I'm not sure where this comes from, "apt dist-uprade" took several hours. (BTW, I'm also using libfltk1.3-dev from Debian, without any further configuration.) Sebastian
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:34:20PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote
On Di, Sep 15, 2015, August Karlstrom wrote:
On 2015-09-15 20:55, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious.
I run Debian Jessie too and I haven't noticed any ugly fonts. Can you provide an example?
Helvetica, e. g., which looks rather pixelated, as compared to other nicely rendered fonts. I'm not sure where this comes from, "apt dist-uprade" took several hours.
(BTW, I'm also using libfltk1.3-dev from Debian, without any further configuration.)
Is Debian's libfltk1.3-dev built with the xft option enabled? If not, then ugly fonts are to be expected. See... http://www.dillo.org/screenshots/disable_antialiasing.png Is there a way to do a custom build of Debian's libfltk1.3-dev? -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>
On Di, Sep 15, 2015, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:34:20PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote
On Di, Sep 15, 2015, August Karlstrom wrote:
On 2015-09-15 20:55, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious.
I run Debian Jessie too and I haven't noticed any ugly fonts. Can you provide an example?
Helvetica, e. g., which looks rather pixelated, as compared to other nicely rendered fonts. I'm not sure where this comes from, "apt dist-uprade" took several hours.
(BTW, I'm also using libfltk1.3-dev from Debian, without any further configuration.)
Is Debian's libfltk1.3-dev built with the xft option enabled? If not, then ugly fonts are to be expected. See... http://www.dillo.org/screenshots/disable_antialiasing.png
Not looked at it in detail, but since most fonts render nicely, I assume that the Debian package is indeed build with Xft support. Sebastian
On 2015-09-15 21:34, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
Helvetica, e. g., which looks rather pixelated, as compared to other nicely rendered fonts. I'm not sure where this comes from, "apt dist-uprade" took several hours.
I don't have Helvetica. However, I have installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer and if the CSS says font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif Iceweasel seems to chooses Arial (from mscorefonts) whereas Dillo chooses the default DejaVu sans-serif font. -- August
Hi Sebastian, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
Hi!
After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious. A possible workaround is attached: a blacklist for fonts (not yet committed). What do you think?
couldn't one get a similar effect with fontconfig using <rejectfont>? See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html Johannes
Sebastian
PS: strcasecmp may not be portable.
diff -r ea3ff2a0a636 dillorc --- a/dillorc Wed Jul 08 18:43:25 2015 +0000 +++ b/dillorc Tue Sep 15 20:48:19 2015 +0200 @@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ # Minimum font size in pixels #font_min_size=6
+# Define fonts dillo should not use at all, typically because their quality is +# that bad that you prefer alternatives. You can specify multiple fonts. +#font_blacklist=uglyfont +#font_blacklist=unattractivefont +#font_blacklist=awkwardfont + # Show tooltip popups for HTML title attributes #show_tooltip=YES
diff -r ea3ff2a0a636 src/prefs.c --- a/src/prefs.c Wed Jul 08 18:43:25 2015 +0000 +++ b/src/prefs.c Tue Sep 15 20:48:19 2015 +0200 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ prefs.font_monospace = dStrdup(PREFS_FONT_MONOSPACE); prefs.font_sans_serif = dStrdup(PREFS_FONT_SANS_SERIF); prefs.font_serif = dStrdup(PREFS_FONT_SERIF); + prefs.font_blacklist = dList_new(16); prefs.fullwindow_start = FALSE;
/* these four constitute the geometry */ @@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ dFree(prefs.font_monospace); dFree(prefs.font_sans_serif); dFree(prefs.font_serif); + dList_free(prefs.font_blacklist); a_Url_free(prefs.home); dFree(prefs.http_language); a_Url_free(prefs.http_proxy); diff -r ea3ff2a0a636 src/prefs.h --- a/src/prefs.h Wed Jul 08 18:43:25 2015 +0000 +++ b/src/prefs.h Tue Sep 15 20:48:19 2015 +0200 @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ char *font_cursive; char *font_fantasy; char *font_monospace; + Dlist *font_blacklist; bool_t enterpress_forces_submit; bool_t middle_click_opens_new_tab; bool_t right_click_closes_tab; diff -r ea3ff2a0a636 src/prefsparser.cc --- a/src/prefsparser.cc Wed Jul 08 18:43:25 2015 +0000 +++ b/src/prefsparser.cc Tue Sep 15 20:48:19 2015 +0200 @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ { "font_monospace", &prefs.font_monospace, PREFS_STRING, 0 }, { "font_sans_serif", &prefs.font_sans_serif, PREFS_STRING, 0 }, { "font_serif", &prefs.font_serif, PREFS_STRING, 0 }, + { "font_blacklist", &prefs.font_blacklist, PREFS_STRINGS, 0 }, { "fullwindow_start", &prefs.fullwindow_start, PREFS_BOOL, 0 }, { "geometry", NULL, PREFS_GEOMETRY, 0 }, { "home", &prefs.home, PREFS_URL, 0 }, diff -r ea3ff2a0a636 src/styleengine.cc --- a/src/styleengine.cc Wed Jul 08 18:43:25 2015 +0000 +++ b/src/styleengine.cc Tue Sep 15 20:48:19 2015 +0200 @@ -391,7 +391,10 @@ fontName = prefs.font_fantasy; else if (dStrAsciiCasecmp (p->value.strVal, "monospace") == 0) fontName = prefs.font_monospace; - else if (Font::exists(layout, p->value.strVal)) + else if (Font::exists(layout, p->value.strVal) && + !dList_find_custom(prefs.font_blacklist, + p->value.strVal, + (dCompareFunc) strcasecmp)) fontName = p->value.strVal;
if (fontName) { // font found
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On Di, Sep 15, 2015, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
After a dist upgrade to Debian Jessie some rather ugly fonts got installed, which make reading texts tedious. A possible workaround is attached: a blacklist for fonts (not yet committed). What do you think?
couldn't one get a similar effect with fontconfig using <rejectfont>? See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
Yes, thanks for the hint. With this info, I withdraw my patch. Perhaps this could be added to the dillo help page. Sebastian
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