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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:42:59 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox problem printing big fonts [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <zhpr-n9jw-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <087b1d9f-e9c2-45a0-dea2-bea977bb4571@netfence.it> <20190317180356.GA2554@elch.exwg.net> <3b726b6b-8596-4c62-8296-bf5fbb763559@netfence.it> <20190318205026.6cynv2wzb23au42t@squirrel.exwg.net>

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Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> writes:

> ## Andrea Venturoli (ml@netfence.it):
>
>> > Uh, define "illegible crap". Wrong glyphs? Bad rendering (blocky pixels,
>> > blurry?)?
>> More "something blocky, vaguely, *really* vaguely, resembling the
>> indended text": something you can read only if you already know what
>> it says.
>
> That sounds familar, but...
>
>> Deleting all X.org 75-dpi and 100-dpi fonts solved this.
>
> I drop this into fonts/conf.d/, and it helps: 
>   <?xml version="1.0"?>
>   <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>   <fontconfig>
>    <selectfont>
>     <rejectfont>
>      <pattern>
>        <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
>      </pattern>
>     </rejectfont>
>    </selectfont>
>   </fontconfig>
>
> I have no idea where I got that from (looks like a late-night fix, git log
> is not that helpful here), and it really looks somewhat overly broad, but
> I can avoid breaking dependencies with that. Should find a real fix...

See also https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225744



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